Pfennig 'Löwenkopf Vierzipfliger'

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.