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Pfennig - Berthold V of Aquileia Gutenwerth
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia |
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| Year | 1220-1228 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a crowned frontal bust, presumably a representation of the patriarch or a bishop, wearing a crown surmounted by a cross pattée and holding what appears to be a crozier or sceptre to the left. The figure is shown in a hieratic, stylized manner consistent with early 13th-century ecclesiastical coinage of the Austrian states. Flanking elements, possibly wings or drapery, extend to either side of the bust. A partial Latin legend runs along the outer margin of the irregular flan. The reverse demonstrates the crude but expressive hammered technique typical of Pfennig coinage of this period. |
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Berthold V, a Bavarian nobleman of the Andechs dynasty, held the Patriarchate of Aquileia during a period of acute tension between imperial and papal interests in northeastern Italy. His coinage was struck at Gutenwerth — an island mint on the Wörthersee, in present-day Carinthia — reflecting the patriarchate's reach deep into the Alpine corridor rather than its Friulian heartland.
The Andechs connection brought Aquileian monetary policy into alignment with trans-Alpine trade networks, and Gutenwerth pfennigs circulated well beyond their ecclesiastical territory of issue.