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Pfennig - Frederick II of Austria
| Issuer | Duchy of Merania (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1230-1243 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Architectural motif depicting a fortified city gate composed of a central crenellated tower flanked by lower turrets, with a prominent arched gateway at the base; three pellets visible in the field. The design is boldly struck in the characteristic incuse relief of hammered medieval silver pfennigs, with fine crenellation detail along the parapet. The composition reflects standard Meranien civic iconography of the mid-thirteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick II of Austria — "the Quarrelsome" — spent much of his reign in open conflict with Emperor Frederick II, Pope Gregory IX, and his own nobility simultaneously. The Duchy of Merania itself was a fragmented, contested territory straddling the eastern Alpine reaches, and coinage from this period reflects that instability: small bracteate-influenced pfennigs struck under uncertain authority, circulating in a region where political control shifted faster than dies could be recut.
CNA Ci21 places this type within a narrow attributional window, the assignment to Frederick resting largely on regional die-style analysis rather than explicit documentary evidence.