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Obol Undetermined Friesach marks
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1200-1220 |
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| Value | 1/2 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | Stylised three-aisled ecclesiastical facade with three towers, characteristic of Friesach-type bracteate-influenced coinage. The central arch features a frontal bust of a bishop in mitre, while each of the two flanking arches contains a six-pointed star in the field. The entire design is bounded by a beaded (pearl) circle. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Friesach pfennigs — of which this obol is the half-unit — became the dominant trade currency across much of the eastern Alpine region and the Balkans during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, circulating far beyond the borders of Carinthia into Hungary, Serbia, and the Latin states of the eastern Mediterranean. The Archbishop of Salzburg and the Duke of Carinthia both held minting rights at Friesach simultaneously, which created a proliferation of types so tangled that attribution remains genuinely contested — hence the "undetermined marks" classification here.