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1 Pfennig - Bernhard von Spanheim Landstrass
| Issuer | Carinthia, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1202-1256 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A lion passant to the left, rendered in a bold Romanesque style, holding a long cross in its forepaws. The lion's body is depicted with characteristic medieval stylization, with a curling tail and prominent claws. The design occupies the majority of the irregular flan, with a plain field surrounding the device. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bernhard von Spanheim ruled Carinthia for over five decades, an unusually long tenure that coincided with the high-water mark of the Spanheim dynasty's influence across the southeastern Alpine duchies. His minting activity at Landstrass — today Kostanjevica na Krki in Slovenia — reflects the proliferation of local ecclesiastical and secular coinage that characterized the fragmented monetary environment of 13th-century German-speaking lands. Small silver pfennigs of this type rarely survive without significant wear; they circulated hard in a regional economy where such fractions were genuinely useful.