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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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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A lion passant to the left, rendered in a bold Romanesque style, grasping an upright cross in its forepaws. The figure fills the coin field, with the lion's mane and body details executed in characteristic 13th-century hammered relief. A partial circular legend reading LANDSTROSN appears around the design within a beaded border. |
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| Mint | Landstrass (Novo Mesto) |
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Bernhard von Spanheim ruled Carinthia for over five decades — one of the longest ducal reigns of the medieval period in the German-speaking lands — and used that stability to aggressively develop mining and minting operations across his territory. The Landstrass mint, located in what is now Kostanjevica na Krki in modern Slovenia, served the eastern reaches of his duchy where silver from regional extraction fed a small but productive coinage.
The CNA (Corpus Nummorum Austriacorum) attribution places this piece firmly within the Spanheim bracteate-adjacent pfennig tradition of the mid-thirteenth century.