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Pfennig - Ekbert II
| Issuer | County of Formbach (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1106-1125 |
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| Weight | 0.92 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Count Ekbert II in high relief, depicted with a crown or diadem surmounted by pellets, rendered in the crude but vigorous Romanesque style typical of early twelfth-century Austrian bracteate-related coinage. The face is rendered schematically with prominent eyes and stylized beard, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding field is populated with crescent and pellet ornaments distributed at intervals around the bust, reflecting the decorative conventions of the period. No legible inscription is present, the entire design being concentrated on the powerful central effigy. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ekbert II ruled Formbach during one of the most turbulent periods of the Investiture Controversy, when the authority of German secular lords to mint coinage was deeply entangled with their political loyalty to either emperor or pope. His county, situated in what is now Lower Bavaria near the Inn River, was extinct by 1158 when the Formbach line died out — making this pfennig a product of a polity that survived barely two generations beyond Ekbert's own tenure.