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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Weissenburg, Abbey of |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered field depicting a standing or stylized heraldic figure, likely an eagle or beast, rendered in a rough medieval bracteate-influenced style typical of South German ecclesiastical coinage. The design is struck in low relief with irregular flan edges characteristic of hand-hammered production. Inscriptions or legends, if present, are largely indistinct due to the striking technique and small module. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Abbey of Weissenburg, founded in the seventh century in Alsace, held minting rights that produced a long and poorly documented series of small silver issues. These bracteate and near-bracteate pfennig types circulated within a highly localized ecclesiastical economy, and attribution among Weissenburg types remains contested — Nessel and Engel & Lehr do not always agree on sequencing. The abbey's minting authority was intermittently challenged by the bishops of Strasbourg and the counts of the region throughout the high medieval period.