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Pfennig Carniola and borderland coinage
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1210 |
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| Reference(s) | CNA#Cr5 |
| Obverse description | Central field depicts a seated or enthroned figure in frontal or three-quarter pose, rendered in the crude, stylized manner characteristic of early 13th-century Austrian hammered coinage. The figure appears robed, with linear drapery folds indicated by incuse lines, and holds what may be a sceptre or staff. The design is contained within the irregularly shaped flan with no border legend visible on this side. The striking is bold but uneven, typical of hand-hammered bracteate-influenced pfennig production of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1210) - Around 1210 |
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Carniola in the early thirteenth century was a march territory under persistent jurisdictional pressure — contested between the Dukes of Carinthia, the Patriarchate of Aquileia, and Babenberg interests. These pfennigs belong to the Krainer Pfennig tradition, thin bracteate-style or near-bracteate regional issues whose types shifted frequently with changes in feudal authority. The CNA Cr5 reference places this squarely in the coinage of Bernhard of Spanheim's duchy, before Carniola was formally separated as a distinct march under its own administration in 1246.