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Pfennig 'Vierzipfeliger Pfennig'
| Issuer | City of Solothurn |
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| Year | 1310 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | VRSUS |
| Reverse description | Blank reverse, consistent with bracteate technique in which the design is struck on a single thin flan, leaving the reverse featureless or bearing only a faint incuse impression of the obverse design. |
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The "Vierzipfeliger Pfennig" — four-pointed pfennig — takes its name from the characteristic irregular flan shape produced when a square-cut blank was struck between two dies, forcing the metal outward at the corners. Solothurn's civic coinage authority was producing these in the early fourteenth century as the city asserted increasing economic independence within the Burgundian frontier zone. At 0.3 g, these were working money, handled daily and rarely preserved with care.
The HMZ 1#446a attribution places this firmly within a tightly documented Swiss bracteate-adjacent tradition, with Wüthrich's collection providing the primary comparative corpus for Solothurn's early civic issues.