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Pfennig - Albert II Oberzeiring
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1330-1358 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | As a uniface pfennig (bracteate-style), the reverse presents a mirror-image incuse impression of the obverse design, showing the faint incuse relief of the panther within its architectural frame. The surface is characteristically plain and unadorned, bearing no legend or additional design elements, consistent with the single-sided striking technique common to thin silver pfennigs of the Styrian mint at Oberzeiring during the reign of Albert II (1330–1358). |
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| Mint | Oberzeiring Mint |
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Albert II ("the Lame") ruled Styria during a period when the Habsburgs were consolidating control over their Austrian duchies, and small silver pfennigs like this one circulated alongside a chaotic mix of regional issues that made commerce genuinely difficult across duchy boundaries. Oberzeiring, a silver-mining town in the Upper Murtal, had been a significant mint site since the thirteenth century, its output directly tied to local ore extraction rather than centralized fiscal policy.
By the mid-fourteenth century, Oberzeiring's mining output was already declining — the seams that had made it productive were largely exhausted before Albert's reign ended in 1358.