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Pfennig - Johann II Senn von Munsingen

Issuer Bishopric of Basel
Year 1335-1365
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Weight 0.22 g
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Obverse description Bust of the bishop facing left, wearing a mitre, rendered in low relief within a beaded inner circle. A crozier is depicted to the left of the bust. The design is executed in the crude, schematic style typical of medieval Swiss episcopal bracteate-related small coinage, with the figure occupying the full field. No legend is present.
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Mintage ND (1335-1365) - Regular hair and without collar -
ND (1335-1365) - Shorter hair and with collar -
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Johann II Senn von Münsingen governed the Bishopric of Basel during one of the more turbulent stretches of the fourteenth century, including the Black Death's devastation of the Rhine valley in 1348–1349, which killed roughly half the population of Basel itself. That the mint continued operating through this period is itself noteworthy. These bracteate-style pfennigs served purely local exchange in a diocese that functioned as a largely autonomous territorial power, and the thirty-year span of this issue reflects the unusual length of Johann's episcopate rather than any monetary reform.

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