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Pfennig - Bela IV Governorate of Hungary, Graz
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1254-1260 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a panther passant to the left, depicted in high relief in the Styrian heraldic tradition. The beast is shown with its head turned, limbs extended in stride, rendered in a bold and somewhat stylised manner characteristic of 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. The field surrounding the figure is plain, contained within the dotted border. No legend is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (1254-1260) |
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Béla IV's nominal lordship over Styria lasted only six years, the result of the 1254 Peace of Ofen which divided the spoils of the Babenberg inheritance between Hungary and Bohemia. The arrangement was always unstable — the Styrian nobility resented Hungarian rule almost immediately — and Béla lost the duchy entirely to Ottokar II of Bohemia by 1260. Coins struck at Graz under his authority survive as the only tangible evidence of a Hungarian monetary presence in Styria, a presence that ended before it properly began.