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Pfennig - Eberhard II Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1200-1235 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Friesach pfennigs were among the most commercially significant coins in the medieval German-speaking world, circulating far beyond their Alpine origins into Hungary, Bohemia, and the Crusader states. Eberhard II, who held the archiepiscopal seat from 1200 to 1246, was a politically formidable figure — deeply entangled in the conflicts between the papacy and the Hohenstaufen emperors — and his mint at Friesach operated at considerable volume to fund both ecclesiastical ambitions and the practical demands of trans-Alpine trade.
The CNA Ca18 classification places this piece within a tightly defined typological sequence established by Koch's corpus. Friesach types are notoriously difficult to attribute without reference to that work.