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Pfennig 'Vierzipfliger'
| Issuer | Habsburg-Laufenburg, Counts of |
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| Year | 1250-1270 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Lion passant to right, wearing a pearled collar, rendered in a bold medieval style characteristic of 13th-century south German bracteate-influenced coinage. A small ring device appears above the lion's back. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with large pellets distributed around the periphery of the flan corresponding to the four pinched points of the Vierzipfliger form. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface issue; the reverse is blank and shows only the incuse shadow of the obverse design as pressed through the thin silver flan during hammered striking, with no intentional design or inscription. |
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The "Vierzipfliger" — named by collectors for its four-pointed, clover-like flan shape — belongs to a bracteate-adjacent tradition of thin-flan pfennigs produced in the Upper Rhine region during the mid-thirteenth century. Habsburg-Laufenburg was a cadet branch of the early Habsburg dynasty, controlling territories around the Rhine crossing at Laufenburg before the main line's ascent consolidated family holdings. These small issues circulated within a tightly regional economy, and the irregular flan shape was a byproduct of cutting technique rather than intentional design.