Denier - Eberhard II von Regensberg Friesach

Friesach deniers were among the dominant trade coins of the eastern Alpine and Adriatic commercial networks throughout the 13th century, widely imitated across Carinthia, Styria, and the Balkans to the point where "Friesacher" became a generic term for silver pennies across a broad geographic arc. The Archbishopric of Salzburg controlled the Friesach mint directly, and Eberhard II — a politically assertive prelate who clashed repeatedly with the Babenberg dukes and held his see through decades of regional turbulence — was one of its most prolific issuers.

The sheer volume of imitative types struck by lesser lords complicates attribution; CNA Ca 16 represents one of the more securely documented attributions within a notoriously tangled series.