The Bishopric of Freising was among the older ecclesiastical minting authorities in Bavaria, with coinage rights traceable to imperial grants well before the Salian period. Otto II held the see from 1184 to 1220, a tenure that coincided with the fractured politics following Frederick Barbarossa's death in 1190 — a moment when regional episcopal lords quietly consolidated temporal privileges while imperial succession was contested between the Hohenstaufen and Welf factions.
Sellier 79 / Reg 133 places this among the documented bracteate-influenced pfennigs of the Freising series, thin-flan issues that are notoriously fragile and rarely survive without some degree of peripheral cracking.
The Bishopric of Freising was among the older ecclesiastical minting authorities in Bavaria, with coinage rights traceable to imperial grants well before the Salian period. Otto II held the see from 1184 to 1220, a tenure that coincided with the fractured politics following Frederick Barbarossa's death in 1190 — a moment when regional episcopal lords quietly consolidated temporal privileges while imperial succession was contested between the Hohenstaufen and Welf factions.
Sellier 79 / Reg 133 places this among the documented bracteate-influenced pfennigs of the Freising series, thin-flan issues that are notoriously fragile and rarely survive without some degree of peripheral cracking.