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Pfennig - Frederick III
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1325-1360 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, typical of this uniface Pfennig type struck in the Duchy of Styria during the mid-fourteenth century. The reverse shows only the incuse impression of the obverse design transferred through the thin silver flan during hammered striking, with no intentional design elements or inscriptions. |
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| Mintage | ND (1325-1360) |
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Frederick III of the Duchy of Styria — known as Frederick the Fair — was also claimant to the Holy Roman imperial throne, contesting it against Louis IV of Bavaria in a dispute that dragged on for years and included Frederick's capture at the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322. These small bracteate-style pfennigs circulated during a politically fractured period in the Austrian duchies, when Styrian monetary output served local trade networks largely independent of imperial fiscal control. The CNA D120 classification places this within a well-documented Styrian sequence, though individual die attributions within the 1325–1360 span remain contested among specialists.