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Pfennig - Berthold V of Aquileia Gutenwerth
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia |
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| Year | 1200-1235 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (1000-1600) |
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| Reverse description | Frontal depiction of a seated or standing ecclesiastical figure, flanked on either side by two smaller standing figures or attendants rendered in a highly schematic, hieratic style. A small circular pellet or annulet appears at the top of the field above the central figure. The entire design is enclosed within a raised beaded or rope-like circular border. The flan has a squared-irregular form characteristic of hammered pfennigs from the Gutenwerth mint in Carniola. |
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| Mint | Gutenwerth (Otok pri Dobravi, Carniola) |
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Berthold V ruled the Patriarchate of Aquileia from 1218 to 1251, though coinage attributed to his reign is conventionally bracketed earlier to account for transitional issues. The patriarchs of Aquileia held both ecclesiastical and secular authority over a strategically fractious territory between the Kingdom of Italy and the Duchy of Carinthia, and their mint at Gutenwerth — on an island in the Drava River — operated as a distinctly northern outpost of Italian episcopal coinage traditions.
The Gutenwerth mint was among several competing patriarchal striking sites, each serving different regional circulation zones along the Alpine trade corridors.