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Denier - Austrian Interregnum
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1246-1251 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Within a plain oval frame set on a square irregular flan, a heraldic eagle displayed occupies the central field, rendered in the bold, schematic style characteristic of mid-13th-century Austrian bracteate coinage. The bird's spread wings and talons are rendered with stylized feather detail, and the head is turned to the right. The surrounding field between the oval border and the coin's clipped corners is flat and unadorned. No legend is present, consistent with the anonymous issues of the Austrian Interregnum period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, typical of hammered bracteate-style pfennig coinage of this period, displays an incuse mirror impression of the obverse design within a circular border on the irregular square flan. A schematic figural composition, likely corresponding to the obverse eagle motif, is visible in low relief as a consequence of the single-die hammering technique. The flan shows characteristic irregular clipping and surface texture consistent with hand-struck silver coinage of 13th-century Austria. No inscription or legend is present. |
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Friedrich II of Austria died at the Battle of Leitha in June 1246 without a male heir, ending the Babenberg dynasty and throwing the duchy into a succession crisis that would last five years. The interregnum coinage struck between 1246 and 1251 predates Rudolf of Habsburg's eventual consolidation of the region by several decades — these pieces circulated under competing claimants, including Ottokar II of Bohemia, who briefly held the duchy by right of his marriage to Friedrich's niece.
Attribution to CNA B152 places this squarely among the thin bracteate-influenced pfennig issues of the eastern Alpine mints, a regional tradition that persisted well past its obsolescence elsewhere.