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Pfennig 'Vierzipfliger Löwenpfennig'
| Issuer | Habsburg-Laufenburg, Counts of |
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| Year | 1201-1250 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1201-1250) |
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The "Vierzipfliger Löwenpfennig" — the four-pointed lion pfennig — belongs to a dense cluster of bracteate-adjacent bracteates and thin-flan pfennigs produced by the minor Rhenish Habsburg branch seated at Laufenburg, a toll-collecting position on the Rhine that made even small comital dynasties worth watching monetarily. The Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg split from the main Habsburg line in the late twelfth century and maintained independent mint rights until absorption pressured the branch into irrelevance by the mid-thirteenth century.
Matzke's cataloguing of this type places it firmly within the upper Rhine bracteate tradition, where the flan geometry and striking technique owe more to the Swiss plateau workshops than to Alsatian practice.