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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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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Two facing busts in profile, separated by a central cross-staff or processional cross. A cross appears to the left and right of the busts in the field. The busts and cross are enclosed within or flanked by a double annulet connected by straight lines. The symbol ΩΩ is present in the outer field. The style is consistent with the crude but expressive hammered coinage of the mid-twelfth-century County of Formbach. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΩΩ |
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| Additional information |
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.