Hans Wydenbein

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Tübinger Schilling of the stamp cutter Hans Wydenbein. 1479/1480 minted in Tübingen under Ulrich V. , Eberhard V. and Christoph I. von Baden , 1478–1480. Presumably intended for bathing .

Hans Wydenbein was a mint master in Tübingen .

When there was a shortage of coins in Württemberg, Count Eberhard decided to make a new minting and called Hans Wydenbein to Tübingen as mint master , so that he could mint him Tübinger Schillings, Heller and Pfennigs.

After the Counts of Württemberg and the Margrave of Baden had merged in the Leonberg Coin Treaty in 1475, Hans Wydenbein cut a jointly minted shilling that bore the names and coats of arms of all the minters of this treaty, i. H. the two counts of the then divided Württemberg Ulrich V and Eberhard V and the margrave of Baden, Christoph von Baden . The Württemberg counts are named on the front and the squared shield with the coat of arms of Württemberg and Mömpelgard is shown. The reverse is named Christoph von Baden and shows the coats of arms of Baden and Sponheim.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Pfaff: History of the Princely House and Land Wirtemberg , Volume 2, Metzler, 1839
  2. ^ Schilling, joint coinage of the Counts of Württemberg and the Margrave of Baden. State Museum Württemberg, Art and Cultural History Collections (MK 5797).
  3. ↑ Klein, Ulrich and Raff, Albert (1993): The Württemberg coins from 1374-1693. A catalog of types, variants and samples, Süddeutsche Münzkataloge, Vol. 4. Stuttgart, No. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Wydenbein, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tübingen mint master
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century