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Pfennig - Eberhard II and Leopold VI Rann
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1200-1241 |
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| Weight | 1.07 g |
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| Reverse description | A stylized bridge occupies the lower portion of the field, above which a stag's head is displayed in profile or facing. Two crenellated towers flank the composition on either side, each rising above the ends of the bridge. A six-pointed rosette appears above the stag's head at the apex of the design. The entire device is enclosed within a double ring of pearls forming the border, typical of the refined decorative vocabulary of Salzburg regional pfennig coinage of the early 13th century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rann-type bracteates from Salzburg occupy an awkward historiographical space — they circulated across a region where episcopal and ducal authority overlapped uncomfortably, and the joint attribution to Eberhard II and Leopold VI reflects decades of negotiated coexistence rather than any formal monetary union. Eberhard II, archbishop from 1200 to 1246, was among the most politically combative prelates of his generation, eventually excommunicated by Pope Honorius III in 1226 over jurisdictional disputes that had little to do with coinage and everything to do with who controlled the Alpine passes.