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Pfennig - Albert I Graz
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1290-1360 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a plain circular inner ring set against an irregular flan, a panther passant is depicted facing left in the field, rendered in a crude but vigorous medieval style characteristic of Styrian bracteate-influenced pfennigs. The panther, a traditional heraldic emblem of Styria, displays open jaws with protruding tongue and raised forepaw. The surrounding field is plain, with no legend or inscription present. The hammered flan exhibits the irregular outline typical of hand-struck medieval coinage from the Graz mint. |
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| Mintage | ND (1290-1360) |
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These small bracteate-style pfennigs were struck at Graz under the Albertine Habsburg line following Albert I's consolidation of Styria after 1282, when the duchy passed to the Habsburgs through inheritance from the last Babenberg claimants. The Graz mint operated with considerable autonomy during this period, and attribution within the series remains genuinely difficult — the CNA sequence groups issues across a seventy-year span precisely because die evidence rarely permits tighter dating.