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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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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1) |
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| Reverse description | Frontal bust of a crowned episcopal or secular ruler depicted in the Romanesque manner, facing the viewer with stylized facial features including rounded eyes and schematic nose and mouth. The figure holds a processional cross to the left and a scepter or staff to the right, both rendered in bold relief. The bust is set within a crescent or lunette formed by a beaded arc, a characteristic compositional device of the Friesacher Pfennig tradition. The surrounding field displays additional decorative motifs and the coin's irregular flan edges are consistent with hand-hammered production of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1200-1235) |
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Berthold V governed the Patriarchate of Aquileia from 1218 to 1251, making the tighter end of this date range more probable for this issue. The patriarchs of Aquileia held both ecclesiastical and secular coinage rights — a combination that made their mint at Gurk, and later at Aquileia itself, politically significant well beyond its output volume. Berthold was a member of the Andechs-Meran dynasty, a family whose influence stretched from Bavaria to the Adriatic and whose members occupied multiple episcopal sees simultaneously.
The Gutenwerth attribution places production at the island mint on the Wörthersee in Carinthia.