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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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| Currency | Pfennig (976-1278) |
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| Obverse description | Full-length figure of the Duke striding to the right, brandishing a sword in his raised right hand and bearing a shield in his left; the figure's legs extend downward into the surrounding legend. The inscription is arranged in the outer field between two concentric beaded or linear circles, forming a typical medieval bracteate-style border treatment. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Frederick II of Austria — "the Quarrelsome" — spent much of his reign in open conflict with Emperor Frederick II and the Hungarian crown, which repeatedly disrupted his ability to govern and mint consistently. The Stein an der Save mint in Oberkrain, a strategically critical crossing point on the Sava River, was one of several peripheral minting operations Frederick used to assert territorial control over contested Slovenian marchlands during the 1230s and early 1240s.
Frederick died without an heir at the Battle of the Leitha in 1246, extinguishing the Babenberg line entirely.