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Pfennig - Albert VI
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1458-1463 |
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| Reference(s) | CNA#Fa54 |
| Obverse description | Crowned shield bearing the arms of Upper Austria, with the positions of the coats of arms transposed, surmounted by a jagged or indented crown. The design is rendered in the typical late-medieval Austrian brakteat style, with a flat, lightly struck field characteristic of hammered coinage of the period. No legend or border inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (1458-1463) |
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Albert VI held Austria in an almost permanent state of financial crisis, funding near-continuous war against his brother Frederick III through increasingly debased small coinage. These pfennigs, struck across a five-year window of fraternal conflict, were produced at a fineness far below earlier Austrian issues — the silver content degraded progressively as the treasury collapsed under military expenditure. The brothers formally partitioned Habsburg lands multiple times before Albert's death in 1463 ended the dispute without resolution.