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Pfennig - Lüthold II von Rötteln
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1238-1248 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, as is characteristic of this type of thin hammered medieval silver pfennig, where the obverse die impression faintly ghosts through to the reverse surface. No design, legend, or decorative element is present on the reverse field. |
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Lüthold II von Rötteln served as Bishop of Basel during a period of intense friction between the episcopal authority and the burghers of Basel, who were pressing steadily for communal autonomy. His decade in office saw the city's merchant class consolidating economic power that would, within a generation, begin to erode episcopal control over minting rights entirely. This pfennig was struck under that tension.
The Wüthrich collection reference places this piece among a tightly documented series of Basel bracteate-influenced issues — thin, fragile, and rarely surviving without cracking along the flan edges.