Pfennig - Eberhard II Friesach

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.