1 Pfennig

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.