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Bracteate Pfennig - Ottokar II and successors Völkermarkt
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1275-1290 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (800-1500) |
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| Obverse description | Bracteate type struck on a thin, irregularly shaped silver flan with a lobated border. Central device depicts a panther or leonine beast passant to the right, rendered in high relief with pronounced musculature and a curled tail raised over its back; a small six-pointed star or cross appears to the upper left of the animal. The figure is enclosed within a lozenge or square frame set on its point, itself surrounded by two concentric raised rings that fill the broad flat field. The design is executed in the bold, schematic style characteristic of late 13th-century Carinthian bracteate coinage, with no legend. |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents the incuse, mirror-image impression of the obverse design: a passant beast within a lozenge frame and concentric ring borders, appearing in negative relief on the thin hammered silver flan. The surface is characteristically flat and unpolished, with natural die-sink undulations typical of bracteate production. No separate reverse die was employed. |
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| Mint | Völkermarkt Mint |
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