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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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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | Stylized Romanesque church facade depicted in schematic form, showing a central gable flanked by two towers; a human head or bust appears below the gable in the central field, while a crescent surmounted by a cross pattee occupies the upper portion of the design. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, consistent with the Friesach pfennig type of the early 13th century. |
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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.