Pfennig 'Vierzipfliger Löwenpfennig'

The "Vierzipfliger Löwenpfennig" takes its collector name from the characteristic four-pointed flan shape produced by the clipping technique used in the Upper Rhine workshops of this period — each corner pulled or cut to produce a roughly lozenge outline rather than a round blank. The Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg split from the main Habsburg line in 1232 following the division of Rudolf II's inheritance, giving this branch its brief independent coinage identity before the line's gradual absorption into the senior Habsburg house.