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Pfennig - Peter I von Reichenstein
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1286-1296 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Half-length frontal effigy of a bishop wearing a mitre, depicted in a stylized Romanesque manner. The figure holds a crozier in the left hand and raises the right hand in a gesture of benediction, with a book (Gospel) tucked under the left arm. The face is rendered with a schematic, almost mask-like quality typical of late 13th-century bracteate-influenced coinage of the Upper Rhine region. The design fills the broad, irregular flan characteristic of this pinched bracteate type, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Mintage | ND (1286-1296) |
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Peter I von Reichenstein served as Bishop of Basel during a period when the city's mint was actively contested between episcopal and municipal authority — a tension that would eventually strip the bishops of minting rights entirely by the early fourteenth century. These pfennigs represent some of the final decades of unchallenged episcopal coinage from Basel before that transfer of control.