Pfennig - Otto von Grandson

Otto von Grandson held the bishopric of Basel for just three years before his death in 1309, a tenure too brief to produce a substantial coinage. He was primarily a Savoyard nobleman and diplomat — one of Edward I of England's most trusted envoys — rather than an ecclesiastical administrator, which makes his appearance on episcopal coinage something of an anomaly in his biography. The pfennig issued under his authority belongs to the thin-flan bracteate tradition of the Upper Rhine, where the Bishopric's minting rights were perpetually contested by the city of Basel itself.