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Pfennig - Bernard II Heiligenkreuz
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1220-1240 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bernard II, Duke of Carinthia from the Sponheim dynasty, issued these bracteate-style pfennigs during a period when Carinthian coinage was heavily influenced by the nearby Friesach mint tradition — itself one of the most commercially significant minting centers in the eastern Alpine region during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Friesacher pfennigs had become a dominant trade currency across the Adriatic hinterland and into the Balkans, and Bernard's issues circulated within that same economic network.
The CNA reference Cq97 places this among a well-documented but scarce class of Carinthian feudal issues from the Sponheim period, which ended with the dynasty's extinction in 1269.