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Denier - Ottokar II of Bohemia Vienna
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria |
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| Year | 1251-1276 |
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| Value | Denier (Pfennig) (1) |
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| Obverse description | Two heraldic creatures conjoined back-to-back in the field: the forepart of a lion to the left and the forepart of an eagle to the right, their bodies joined at the hindquarters. The design, characteristic of the Viennese Pfennig tradition under Ottokar II, is rendered in a bold, stylised manner typical of 13th-century Austrian hammered coinage. No legend or inscription is present. The irregular flan shows typical characteristics of hand-struck medieval silver. |
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| Mint | Vienna |
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Ottokar II held Austria not by inheritance but by political maneuver — he secured the duchy in 1251 through marriage to Margaret of Babenberg, the widowed duchess some thirty years his senior, after the male Babenberg line died out with Duke Frederick II in 1246. The Vienna mint continued striking deniers under his authority as he progressively absorbed Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola into a Bohemian-dominated central European bloc that briefly rivaled the Habsburgs before Rudolf I dismantled it at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278.