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Pfennig - Johann II Senn von Münsingen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1340-1365 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Facing left bust of a bishop wearing a mitre, rendered in a stylised medieval manner typical of 14th-century episcopal bracteate-related coinage. The letter I appears to the left of the bust and the letter O to the right, serving as abbreviated episcopal identifiers. A single dot is placed above the mitre in the upper field. The design is contained within the characteristic four-pinched round flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | I O |
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Johann II Senn von Münsingen held the see of Basel from 1335 to 1365, a tenure marked by the catastrophic disruptions of the Black Death and the Basel earthquake of 1356 — one of the most destructive seismic events in medieval Central European history. Whether the episcopal mint continued uninterrupted through that disaster is not documented, but the broad date range assigned to this type reflects exactly the kind of archival silence the earthquake left behind.