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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 | Full-length frontal effigy of a bishop standing in vestments, holding a processional cross in the right hand and a crosier in the left. The figure is rendered in the bold, somewhat schematic relief typical of medieval Friesacher Pfennig coinage. A circular legend appears between two concentric beaded or plain border circles in the outer field. |
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| Mint | Friesach |
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Eberhard II served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1200 to 1246, and his decades-long tenure coincided with intense friction between the papacy and Emperor Frederick II — a conflict in which Eberhard was an active papal partisan, twice going into exile as a result. These Friesach-type pfennigs were struck at the mint in Friesach, a Salzburg possession in Carinthia that had become the dominant silver coinage of the eastern Alpine trade networks from the mid-12th century onward. By Eberhard's later issues, the Friesacher type was already losing ground to emerging regional competitors.