Pfennig - Albert I Graz

Albert I of Habsburg acquired Styria through the Treaty of Rheinfelden in 1282, the same partition agreement that divided the Habsburg lands between Albert and his brother Rudolf II — an arrangement their father Rudolf I essentially imposed to prevent fragmentation. Styrian pfennigs of this period are bracteate-adjacent issues struck under tight ducal control from Graz, which Albert was consolidating as an administrative center against persistent resistance from the Styrian nobility.