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Pfennig - Beatrice of Burgundy Gutenwerth
| Issuer | Duchy of Merania (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1228-1231 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of a standing bishop, holding a cross-staff (processional cross) in his right hand and a crozier in his left. The figure is rendered in the flat, stylized manner characteristic of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. A circular legend in Latin appears in the field between two concentric beaded or linear border circles. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Beatrice of Burgundy was the wife of Otto I of Merania, and this issue dates to the period when the Duchy of Merania — a fragmented, territorially awkward domain stretching across parts of modern Bavaria, Franconia, and the Adriatic coast — was navigating the fallout from the murder of Philip of Swabia and the broader collapse of Hohenstaufen authority in the region. That Beatrice appears as issuing authority on coinage at Gutenwerth reflects the practical realities of dynastic administration in a duchy where territorial coherence depended heavily on local lordship.
Gutenwerth, an island in the Wörthersee in Carinthia, was a Meranien possession of genuine strategic value.