Pfennig 'Vierzipfliger'

The Fraumünster in Zürich held minting rights granted originally by Louis the German in 853, making it one of the longer-running ecclesiastical minting authorities in the German-speaking lands. By the fourteenth century, however, the abbey's monetary autonomy was increasingly contested by the growing civic power of Zürich itself, and these small bracteate-style pfennigs represent the tail end of meaningful independent production before the city effectively absorbed control of local coinage.

The "Vierzipfliger" designation refers to the four-cornered or four-pointed flan shape — a clipping convention that distinguishes this type within the HMZ series.