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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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| Currency | Pfennig (800-1500) |
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| Mint | Oberzeiring Mint |
| Mintage | ND (1330-1358) |
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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.