Denier - Eberhard II von Regensberg Friesach

Eberhard II served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1200 to 1246, one of the longest episcopates of the medieval period, and his deniers from Friesach were struck during a moment of significant political friction between the Archbishopric and the Babenberg Duchy of Austria. Friesach, a major silver-mining center in Carinthia, became the dominant mint for the region precisely because its output underpinned trans-Alpine trade routes connecting northern Italy with the German lands. The "Friesacher Pfennig" type circulated so widely across central Europe that it was imitated by numerous secular and ecclesiastical lords throughout the 12th and 13th centuries.

CNA Ca 10 falls within a large and complex die sequence; attribution to specific sub-periods within Eberhard's nearly five-decade tenure remains difficult without die-linkage analysis.