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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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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Within an inner beaded circle, a lion passant facing left, rendered in the bold, stylized manner characteristic of medieval hammered coinage. The lion's body is depicted in profile with raised forepaw and a curved tail, exhibiting strong relief typical of 13th-century Austrian Pfennige. An outer circular legend in Latin runs between two concentric beaded borders surrounding the central device. The field is flat and unadorned, with the design occupying the majority of the flan. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bernard II of Carinthia, known as "the Spanheimer," ruled during a period of intense competition between the Babenberg dukes of Austria and the Spanheim dynasty over control of Alpine trade routes. These small bracteate-influenced pfennigs were struck at the Heiligenkreuz mint, a house closely tied to Cistercian patronage — the same monastic network that helped stabilize coinage standards across the German-speaking duchies in the early thirteenth century. The CNA Co2 classification places this among the earliest attributable Carinthian issues to Bernard's reign with any certainty.