Pfennig - Albert I

Albert I inherited Austria following the death of his father Rudolf I of Habsburg in 1291, but his authority over the duchy dated from 1282 when Rudolf divided the Habsburg hereditary lands between Albert and his brother Rudolf II — a partition the brothers almost immediately collapsed back into joint rule, and then sole Albertine control. These thin silver bracteate-style pfennigs circulated in a politically volatile period that included Albert's suppression of the Austrian nobility's revolt in 1292 and his eventual election as German King in 1298, the same year he had his predecessor Adolf of Nassau killed at the Battle of Göllheim.