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Denier - Eberhard II von Regensberg Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1200-1246 |
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| Weight | 1.16 g |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of a bishop in ecclesiastical vestments, bareheaded, depicted in schematic Romanesque style with the body extending into the legend area; the figure holds a crozier in the left hand and a processional cross staff in the right hand, both rendered in a stylized, flat manner characteristic of early 13th-century Friesach pfennig coinage. The design is contained within a beaded inner circle. |
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| Mint | Friesach |
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Eberhard II served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1200 to 1246 — an unusually long tenure that coincided with the height of Friesach's importance as a minting center. The Friesach denier type had emerged in the mid-twelfth century and became the dominant trade coin across much of the southeastern German lands, Styria, Carinthia, and into the Hungarian kingdom, so widely circulated that "Friesacher" became a unit of account independent of any single issuing authority.
Multiple ecclesiastical and secular lords struck imitative types under Eberhard's long reign, complicating attribution. CNA Ca 23 represents the Salzburg archiepiscopal issue proper, distinguished from the flood of regional imitations that diluted the type by the early thirteenth century.