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Denier - Leopold VI Enns
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria |
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| Year | 1198-1230 |
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| Value | Denier (Pfennig) (1) |
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| Obverse description | Within a plain inner circle enclosed by a beaded border, a stylized eagle displayed with spread wings faces left, rendered in the Romanesque decorative tradition characteristic of Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennigs. Small rosette or star ornaments punctuate the outer field between the beaded border and the irregular scalloped rim. The flan is broad and thin, with the typical irregular outline produced by hand-cutting of hammered silver blanks. No legend is present; the design is purely pictorial. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leopold VI ruled Austria and Styria simultaneously from 1194, making his reign one of the more administratively complex of the Babenberg dukes. The Enns mint served as a key issuing point under his authority, positioned at the boundary between Upper and Lower Austria — a geography that gave it commercial relevance beyond simple regional supply. These thin bracteate-influenced deniers circulated in a period when Austrian silver coinage was still finding coherent regional identity, well before the Vienna pfennig dominated local exchange in the later thirteenth century.