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Pfennig - Albert II Wiener Neustadt
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria |
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| Year | 1330-1358 |
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| Value | Denier (Pfennig) (1) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a flat, featureless field resulting from the single-sided impression technique characteristic of this pfennig type, with no deliberate design, legend, or decorative element struck on this face. Surface texture is rough and irregular, displaying the natural character of the hammered silver flan. Incuse impressions from the obverse die are faintly visible as a consequence of the thin planchet and forceful striking. The edge is irregular and unfinished, consistent with hand-cut flan preparation. This uninscribed reverse is standard for Austrian pfennig coinage of the mid-14th century. |
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| Mint | Wiener Neustadt Mint |
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Albert II — "the Lame" — ruled Austria for over four decades despite a paralytic condition that left him largely immobile from the 1330s onward. Administrative authority increasingly passed through his chancellery rather than the duke himself, yet coinage production at Wiener Neustadt remained active throughout. The city functioned as a secondary ducal residence and mint center, distinct from Vienna, giving Wiener Neustadt issues a regionally specific character within the broader Austrian pfennig series.
CNA B255 places this squarely within the bracteate-influenced thin pfennig tradition of the eastern Alpine mints.