Denier - Adalbert III of Bohemia Friesach, one-sided type

Adalbert III served as Archbishop of Salzburg during one of the most turbulent periods of the Salzburg church's political history — caught between the competing claims of the Holy Roman Empire and the papacy, he was twice expelled from his see and died in exile in 1200. These Friesach-type pfennigs were struck at the Salzburg mint in Friesach, a Carinthian town whose coins became so widely trusted in central European trade that "Friesacher" became a regional monetary standard used far beyond the archbishopric's borders for over a century.