Pfennig - Frederick II of Walchen Friesach

Frederick II ruled the Archbishopric of Salzburg from 1270 to 1284, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the Habsburgs as Rudolf I consolidated power across the region following his victory at the Battle of Marchfeld in 1278. The Friesach mint had been a major silver-striking center since the twelfth century, its output circulating widely across the eastern Alpine trade routes into Styria and Carinthia. By Frederick's time the Friesacher Pfennig type was already past its commercial peak, gradually displaced by the rising Wiener Pfennig.