Pfennig - Albrecht II von Österreich

Albrecht II — known as "the Lame" due to a paralytic condition that confined him largely to Vienna from the 1330s onward — nonetheless oversaw a period of significant territorial consolidation for the Habsburgs. His pfennigs circulated through a duchy that had recently absorbed Carinthia and Carniola, and the coinage had to serve an expanded and economically active region. The thin, bracteate-influenced fabric of these pieces made them notoriously fragile in circulation, and survivors without cracks or edge losses are genuinely uncommon.