1 Pfennig - Ottokar II of Bohemia Vienna

Ottokar II seized the Duchy of Austria in 1251 by marrying the much older Margarete of Babenberg following the extinction of that dynasty's male line, and these small bracteate-style pfennigs were struck throughout his aggressive expansion into the Alpine territories. His rule over Austria ended abruptly in 1276 when Rudolf of Habsburg forced him to surrender the duchy — a humiliation Ottokar refused to accept, leading directly to his death at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278.