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1 Pfennig - Albrecht II Enns
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria |
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| Year | 1330-1358 |
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| Value | Denier (Pfennig) (1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially uniface in practical terms, presenting a flat, incuse or near-blank field resulting from the single-die hammered striking technique employed for this type of thin medieval silver pfennig. The surface shows scattered die flow lines and natural flan irregularities, with faint ghosted impressions of the obverse design visible in places due to metal displacement during striking. No intentional design, legend, or device is present on the reverse. The edge remains irregular and unfinished, consistent with hand-prepared coin blanks of the period. |
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Albrecht II — called "the Lame" due to a paralytic condition that confined him largely to Vienna — proved one of the more administratively capable Habsburgs of the fourteenth century. His long reign saw the consolidation of ducal mint rights and a sustained effort to regularize small silver coinage across Austrian territories. The Enns mint was among the handful of sites he kept actively producing pfennigs, though output there was subordinate to Vienna.
These small bracteate-influenced pfennigs circulated alongside a chaotic mix of regional issues, and die cutting at Enns was noticeably less refined than contemporary Vienna production.