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Pfennig - Otto III
| Issuer | Lower Bavaria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1290-1312 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially blank, displaying only the faint incuse ghost image of the obverse design transferred through the thin hammered silver flan during striking. The surface shows the characteristic texture of a medieval hammered planchet with no intentional design elements, legends, or devices present. This uniface or near-uniface technique is consistent with contemporary Lower Bavarian pfennig coinage of the late 13th and early 14th centuries. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Otto III ruled Lower Bavaria during a period of near-constant territorial friction with his cousins in Upper Bavaria, the dynasty fractured by the 1255 partition of the Wittelsbach lands. These small bracteate-style pfennigs circulated within a politically fragmented duchy that would not be reunified under a single Wittelsbach duke until 1340. The thin silver fabric makes survivors particularly vulnerable to edge splits and lamination — a structural weakness inherent to the regional minting practice rather than any specific die failure.