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Pfennig - Berthold V of Aquileia Gutenwerth
| Issuer | Patriarchate of Aquileia |
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| Year | 1218-1235 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1) |
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| Reverse description | Bold central cross extending to the inner border, dividing the field into four quadrants; within each angle of the cross, an outward-facing crescent moon and a five-pointed star alternate in opposing quarters, creating a heraldic quartered effect. The design is a common type associated with the Patriarchate of Aquileia and its dependencies in the Carniolan and Istrian mints. A circular inscription runs around the periphery of the reverse, contained between two concentric circles forming a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Berthold V, appointed Patriarch of Aquileia in 1218 by Pope Honorius III, was a member of the powerful Andechs dynasty — a family whose political reach extended from Bavaria through the Adriatic. The Gutenwerth mint, situated on an island in the Wörthersee in Carinthia, operated under patriarchal authority during a period when Aquileia's ecclesiastical lords were actively contesting temporal control of the region against the Dukes of Merania and the increasingly assertive Habsburgs.
CNA Cj57 places this squarely within the bracteate-influenced thin-flan pfennig tradition of the eastern Alpine mints.