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Obol - Eberhard II Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1200-1246 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (800-1500) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Friesach |
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Friesach, in Carinthia, operated as one of the most commercially active minting centers in the German-speaking lands during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and its coins circulated well beyond Austrian territories into Hungary, Bohemia, and the Balkans. The Friesacher Pfennig type — of which this obol is the half-unit — became so dominant in regional trade that foreign merchants specifically requested payment in Friesach silver, effectively making it the preferred currency of Central European commerce for roughly a century.
Eberhard II held the Salzburg archbishopric from 1200 to 1246, a tenure marked by repeated conflict with the Babenberg dukes over temporal authority in the region.