Pfennig - Albert II Graz

Albert II ("the Lame") ruled Styria under the Habsburg consolidation that followed the death of Frederick the Fair, whose unsuccessful bid for the German throne had left the dynasty's finances badly strained. These small bracteate-style pfennigs were the workhorse denomination of regional exchange in the Graz mint's output — struck across nearly three decades of Albert's unusually long and stable tenure, which made him one of the more administratively effective Habsburg rulers of the century despite his physical disability.