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Pfennig 'Löwenkopf Vierzipfliger'
| Issuer | Habsburg-Laufenburg, Counts of |
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| Year | 1301-1350 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Within a plain inner circle, a stylised lion's head facing left, rendered in a bold, schematic medieval style with an elongated, serrated or toothed neck extending downward. A small star appears in the lower left field. The flan exhibits the characteristic irregular, four-pinched outline typical of Swiss-region bracteate-style pfennigs of the early 14th century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1301-1350) |
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The Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg were a collateral branch of the main Habsburg line, separated after the division of 1232, and by the early fourteenth century were steadily losing ground — financially and territorially — to their more powerful cousins. Small bracteate-style pfennigs like this one were the practical currency of that decline, struck to meet local obligations in the upper Rhine region as the branch's autonomy quietly contracted.
The HMZ 1#133a reference places this among the documented Laufenburg issues, though precise die studies for this series remain sparse in the literature.