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1 Pfennig - Albrecht II Vienna
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria |
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| Year | 1330-1358 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Three trefoil or clover-shaped leaves arranged in a triquetra-like composition, their stems joined at a central point, occupying the full field of this uniface bracteate-style pfennig. The design is rendered in low relief typical of hammered Viennese pfennigs of the mid-14th century, with no surrounding legend. The flan is irregular and somewhat lobate, consistent with hand-cut planchets of the period. |
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| Mint | Vienna Mint |
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Albrecht II — called "the Lame" due to a paralytic condition that confined him largely to Vienna — nonetheless oversaw a period of administrative consolidation in Austria that made his coinage among the more systematically organized of any medieval Habsburg ruler. These small silver pfennigs circulated as the backbone of local Viennese trade during decades when the duchy was absorbing territorial gains and managing the economic fallout of the Black Death, which reached Austria in 1349.
The long dating range reflects a minting practice rather than a single issue — dies were cut and recut across the reign without annual variation markers.