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Pfennig 'Vierzipfliger'
| Issuer | Habsburg-Laufenburg, Counts of |
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| Year | 1301-1350 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (12th-15th century) |
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| Obverse description | A stylized lion passant with an elongated, swan-like neck and head turned back, depicted walking to the left within a beaded or toothed inner circle. The figure is rendered in the characteristic medieval bracteate-influenced style, with exaggerated anatomical features typical of early 14th-century Swiss regional coinage. The field is unadorned, and no legend is present. The coin's four-pinched ('Vierzipfliger') flan shape is clearly visible at the periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND (1301-1350) |
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The "Vierzipfliger" — literally "four-pointed" — takes its name from the distinctive clipping shape produced when dies were struck onto irregularly trimmed flans, a minting shortcut common to the small bracteate-influenced pfennigs circulating in the Upper Rhine region during the first half of the fourteenth century. Habsburg-Laufenburg was a cadet branch of the main Habsburg line, controlling territories around the confluence of the Rhine near present-day Laufenburg, and issued autonomous coinage only during a narrow window before absorption into the dominant Austrian holdings accelerated through the mid-1300s.