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Pfennig 'Vierzipfliger'
| Issuer | Habsburg-Laufenburg, Counts of |
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| Year | 1386-1408 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Uniface strike; the reverse is entirely blank, exhibiting the incuse mirror image of the obverse design as a result of the single-die hammered striking technique typical of bracteate-style pfennigs of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1386-1408) |
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The "Vierzipfliger" — four-pointed or four-cornered — takes its name from the distinctive clipping pattern of its flan rather than any die characteristic, a minting shortcut common to small bracteate-adjacent issues in the Upper Rhine region during the late fourteenth century. Habsburg-Laufenburg was a cadet branch of the Habsburgs that had effectively been a diminishing territorial power since the division of 1232, and by the time these pfennigs were struck the county was already being absorbed piecemeal into the main Habsburg orbit.