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Pfennig - Frederick II Stein in Oberkrain
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1230-1243 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A central cross design with four small crosses arranged symmetrically around a central star motif, with a wedge-shaped or triangular ornament filling the spaces between each arm of the cross, creating an intricate interlocking pattern. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded or pearled inner circle, consistent with the decorative conventions of 13th-century Austrian regional coinage. The reverse is struck in the characteristic thin-flan hammered style of the period, resulting in some irregularity of the coin's outline. |
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Frederick II of Austria — "the Quarrelsome" — was in chronic conflict with Emperor Frederick II throughout this period, resulting in his outlawry and the temporary seizure of his territories in 1236. Coinage from his reign is fragmented across numerous local minting points, and the Oberkrain attribution places this piece within the Carniolan administrative sphere, a region Frederick held through contested inheritance. The CNA Ci24 classification remains one of the less thoroughly documented bracteate-adjacent types in the Austrian series.