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Pfennig 'Vierzipfeliger Pfennig'
| Issuer | Colmar, City of |
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| Year | 1275 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a dove facing left in high relief, rendered in a bold Romanesque style characteristic of 13th-century Alsatian bracteate coinage. A pattée cross is positioned above the dove in the upper field. The overall design is contained within the four-cornered (Vierzipfeliger) irregular flan typical of this issue. |
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| Mintage | 1275: ND (1275) |
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Colmar received its imperial city charter from Rudolf of Habsburg in 1273, just two years before this issue. The timing is almost certainly not coincidental — municipal coinage was among the earliest assertions of civic autonomy newly-granted cities made, and Colmar was no exception. The four-cornered ("vierzipfelig") flan shape is characteristic of the Upper Rhine bracteate tradition, where thin fabric and irregular clipping were controlled by standardizing the blank's profile rather than its precise weight.