Denier - Eberhard I Friesach

Friesach deniers were among the most economically significant coins in the medieval German-speaking world, circulating so widely across the Adriatic trade routes that "Friesacher" became a generic term for silver coinage in parts of the Balkans and Hungary. Eberhard I, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1147 to 1164, presided over a mint that effectively set the regional monetary standard — Hungarian rulers struck deliberate imitations rather than establish competing types.

The CNA Ca 6 attribution places this piece within the early Friesach sequence, before the type proliferated into the numerous ecclesiastical and secular imitations of the late 12th century.