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Bracteate Pfennig - Ulrich III Völkermarkt
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1256-1269 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central Greek cross with small pellets or stars decorating each angle, enclosed within a raised inner circle. A beaded or dotted inner border ring surrounds the central motif, itself encircled by a further concentric border bearing the partially legible Latin legend. The design is rendered in the typical low-relief bracteate style, struck on a thin, broad flan with characteristically irregular edges. The overall composition reflects the Romanesque artistic conventions of mid-13th-century Carinthian ecclesiastical and feudal coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1256-1269) |
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Ulrich III ruled Carinthia during a period of sustained dynastic friction with the Bohemian crown, and his bracteate pfennigs issued from Völkermarkt reflect the fragmented minting authority that characterized the duchy throughout the mid-thirteenth century. Völkermarkt — Slovenian *Velikovec* — sat on the Drava trade route and functioned as one of several competing mint towns under Ulrich's direct control rather than delegated ecclesiastical authority.
The bracteate fabric itself, a single-sided wafer struck on an exceptionally thin flan, was already becoming obsolete in much of the German-speaking world by the 1260s, but persisted in Carinthia well past its currency elsewhere.