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Pfennig - Eberhard II Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1235-1246 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of a haloed saint in episcopal vestments, the right hand raised in a gesture of benediction while the left hand holds a processional cross-staff. The figure is rendered in the Romanesque style typical of Salzburg ecclesiastical coinage. A circular legend runs between two concentric linear borders enclosing the central device. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Eberhard II of Salzburg was among the most politically aggressive archbishops of the thirteenth century, spending much of his tenure in open conflict with both secular lords and the papacy. The Friesach mint — located in Carinthia rather than Salzburg proper — had been a dominant silver-striking center since the mid-twelfth century, and these thin bracteate-style pfennigs circulated widely across the eastern Alpine trade routes into Slovenia and Hungary. CNA Ca25 places this type firmly within the later phase of Eberhard's minting activity, distinguished from earlier Friesach issues by subtle die characteristics catalogued by Luschin.