Catalog
Denier - Albert I Lienz
| Issuer | County of Görz (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1274-1304 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of a six-petalled rosette or flower with a central boss, boldly struck in high relief within a beaded inner circle. The petals are symmetrically arranged and separated by incuse channels, giving the motif a pronounced decorative character consistent with late medieval Alpine deniers. A partially legible circular legend in Gothic lettering surrounds the inner circle, reading fragmentarily as ... MONE ..., an abbreviation of MONETA, indicating the coin's monetary nature. The execution is characteristic of hammered coinage from the County of Görz in the late 13th century. |
| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Albert I ruled Görz during a period when the county was being pulled apart by competing dynastic pressures — Habsburg expansion to the west, the Patriarch of Aquileia to the south, and internal divisions among the Görz-Tirol comital line that had already split the family's holdings by the 1270s. The Lienz mint, seated in the upper Drau valley, operated as a distinctly regional instrument of Albert's authority precisely because that authority was contested.
The denier type catalogued under CNTM Li49 is among the thinner-documented issues of the Austrian states series, with surviving specimens sparse enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.