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Pfennig - Berthold of Merania
| Issuer | Duchy of Merania (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1218-1251 |
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| Currency | Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of the patriarch Berthold standing, robed in ecclesiastical vestments, holding a long patriarchal staff or crosier in his left hand and raising a processional cross in his right hand. The figure is rendered in a flat, stylized Romanesque manner characteristic of 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. The irregular flan shows the figure centrally placed within the field, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Mintage | ND (1218-1251) |
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Berthold IV of Merania issued these bracteate-style pfennigs during a period when the Andechs-Merania dynasty was under intense political pressure following the 1208 assassination of his brother Philip of Swabia — an event that brought lasting imperial suspicion onto the family. The duchy itself was a geographically fragmented entity straddling the eastern Alpine approaches, never a compact territorial power, which complicates attributing circulation findspots to any single economic zone.
CNA Ch19 remains the standard reference for this type, though die studies suggest production across multiple years within the bracket rather than a single sustained issue.