171, Lot: 448. Estimate $300. Sold for $269. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

WORLD. GERMANY, Saxony. Lot of ten AR “Wendenpfennig”. “Holzkirchenpfennig”. Magdeburg? Church / Cross. Gumowski 40 // “Balkenkreuzpfennig”. Naumburg mint? Cross with annulets / Cross. Gumowski 53 (2 coins) // “Kleeblattkreuzpfennig”. Meissen mint? Cross pommée / Cross. Gumowski 54 (5 coins) // “Krummstabpfennig”. Uncertain mint. Bishop’s crozier / Cross. Gumowski 59 (2 coins). Average Fine, typical weak strikes. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. 10 coins in lot.

The early pfennige of Saxony have seen a number of different attributions over the years. Some were known as “wendenpfennige” from the native Slavic peoples of the eastern Germany and Pomerania and others as “randpfennige” (rim pfennigs) from their up-raised edges and attributed to the early Polish bishoprics and kingdoms. More recent studies have concluded they were civic issues of various eastern cities, with places such as Bremen, Halle-Giebichenstein, Meissen, Merseberg, Naumburg being cited as points of origin.