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Pfennig - Otto II of Merania or Thierry of Lyskirch Villach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg (German States) |
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| Year | 1183-1202 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents a sunken, mirror-image incuse impression of the obverse design, with the architectural tower and flanking columns visible in relief as an intaglio. The inner beaded circle and outer border are faintly discernible on the reverse field. The surface shows the characteristic thinness and slight distortion of the hammered flan associated with bracteate coinage of the German ecclesiastical mints in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. No independent reverse legend or design is present. |
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| Mint | Villach |
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The attribution here has never been fully resolved — this piece floats between Otto II of Merania, who held the see from 1177, and Thierry of Lyskirch, bishop from 1196 to 1202. Villach, in what is now Carinthia, sat within Bamberg's extensive territorial holdings south of the Alps, and the diocese's control of that region made local mintage both practical and politically necessary during a period of intense friction between the Hohenstaufen emperors and the German episcopate.