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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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| Currency | Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Full-length effigy of a male ruler standing facing, clad in robes, holding a shield at his left side and an upright sword in his right hand; a six-pointed star appears to the left of the figure in the field. The design is rendered in the crude, bold relief characteristic of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage, with an irregularly shaped flan typical of the hammered technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick II of Austria and the Duchy of Merania shared a fractious relationship throughout the 1230s, with territorial disputes along the Adriatic and Bavarian frontiers complicating any straightforward attribution of coinage. The Andechs-Merania dynasty was already in steep decline by this period — the male line had effectively collapsed after 1248 — making issues from the duchy's final decades administratively chaotic and, for collectors, genuinely difficult to assign with precision.
The CNA Ci25 reference places this among the bracteate-adjacent bracteate-influenced pfennigs of the eastern Alpine minting tradition, where thin flans and shallow relief were the norm for fractional silver well into the mid-thirteenth century.