GERMANY BAVARIA-LANDSHUT 1393-1420 pfennig dog and tree
$45.00
GERMANY, BAVARIA-LANDSHUT, Heinrich IV (XVI of Bavaria), the Rich, 1393-1420 in Landshut, pfennig, no date, Neuötting mint, Obverse: dog L, tree behind, Reverse: h between pellets in square, silver, 14mm, 0.45g, S968v, VF
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Description
There are not that many coins with dogs as a major design element.
Landshut was a separate jurisdiction in those days. The Duke of Bavaria came into ownership and it became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria later on.
Bavarians, in southern Germany, started using coins back in the BC times, when the land was full of Celts, before the arrival of the Romans. It was a coherent kingdom from the Middle Ages until World War I.
The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of local autonomy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes, stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.
By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.
