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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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| Weight | 1.1 g |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of an armed ruler wearing a three-pronged crown, holding a sword upright in his right hand and a shield in his left. The figure is rendered in the flat, stylized manner characteristic of medieval Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. A circular legend runs around the periphery of the design, contained between two concentric beaded or linear circles. |
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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 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, a prolonged dispute that saw him temporarily stripped of his duchy in 1236 and his lands occupied by imperial forces. Coinage authority during this period was fragmented across regional minting centers, Oberkrain among them, as ducal administration struggled to maintain fiscal coherence under military pressure. The Stein mint, situated in what is now Kamnik in Slovenia, served the southeastern reaches of Austrian territory.