Pfennig - Bernard II Landstraß

Bernard II ruled Carinthia from 1202 until his death in 1256, and his bracteate-style pfennigs belong to a period when the duchy was navigating competing pressures from the Babenberg dukes of Austria and the rising Styrian nobility. The thin, one-sided fabric of these coins makes die-cracking and warping endemic to the type — not a strike deficiency in individual pieces but a structural reality of the flan preparation technique used across the Alpine minting tradition of this period.