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Pfennig 'Vierzipfliger Löwenpfennig'
| Issuer | Habsburg-Laufenburg, Counts of |
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| Year | 1377 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (12th-15th century) |
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| Obverse description | A rampant lion passant to left occupies the central field, rendered in low relief in a naive medieval style characteristic of small hammered bracteate-type pfennigs. The tail curls upward and crosses over the body at the hindquarters, forming the distinctive crossed-tail device. The figure is set within a shallow incuse field bounded by the irregular four-pinched flan edge, with no legend or border inscription present. |
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| Mintage | 1377: ND (1377) |
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The Counts of Habsburg-Laufenburg were a cadet branch of the main Habsburg line, progressively squeezed out of their territorial base throughout the fourteenth century by their more powerful cousins. By 1379, just two years after this pfennig was struck, the line's remaining Alsatian and Swabian holdings had effectively passed to the main Austrian branch under Rudolf IV's successors. This coin was minted near the political extinction of its issuing authority.