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Pfennig - Dietrich or successors
| Issuer | County of Formbach (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1140-1165 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | A cruciform arrangement of four beaded circles, each terminating in a small cross, with a central beaded ring at the intersection. The four outer beaded circles are joined by curved beaded arcs, each enclosing a single pellet in the resulting lunate fields. Two letter-like symbols (ΩΩ) appear in the outer field, flanking the design. The overall composition is characteristic of the ornate bracteate-influenced Pfennig style of the mid-twelfth-century Austrian region. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Formbach's comital line ended abruptly when Count Ekbert II died without male heirs around 1158, triggering a fragmented inheritance dispute that drew in the Bishopric of Passau and the House of Andechs. Coins attributable to this transitional period — struck under Dietrich or whichever successor briefly controlled the mint — are notoriously difficult to assign with precision, which is why the CNA catalogers hedged the attribution rather than commit to a single issuer.
The county itself was absorbed into Bavarian ecclesiastical territories within a generation of this issue.