Pfennig - Frederick II of Austria

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.