1 Pfennig - Ottokar II of Bohemia Wien

Ottokar II seized Austria in 1251 by marrying the Babenberg heiress Margaret, then absorbed Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola over the following decade — briefly making him the most powerful ruler in the German-speaking world and a serious candidate for the imperial throne. This Wien pfennig belongs to that period of aggressive Přemyslid expansion into formerly Babenberg territory, issued from a mint Ottokar controlled for only twenty-five years before Rudolf of Habsburg wrested Austria from him at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278, where Ottokar was killed.