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.
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.