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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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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Duke Bernard II, depicted in a stylized Romanesque manner typical of early 13th-century Austrian coinage. The figure wears a crown surmounted by a cross and is shown in frontal view with schematic drapery rendered in low relief. A partial Latin legend reading + BERN - ARDV encircles the bust along the coin's periphery. The overall style is characteristic of the Friesacher Pfennig tradition, with bold, if somewhat crude, die-cutting. The irregular flan edge reflects standard hammered production of the period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bernard II ruled Carinthia from 1202 until his death in 1256, and his Heiligenkreuz pfennigs belong to the bracteate-adjacent tradition of thin, broad southern German and Austrian denars that flourished in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The Heiligenkreuz designation connects this issue to the Cistercian abbey of that name in Lower Austria, founded by the Babenbergs — pointing to the ecclesiastical and dynastic entanglements that shaped minting rights in the duchy during precisely this period.