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Pfennig - Frederick III
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1325-1360 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | A heron depicted in profile, head turned back to face rearward, rendered in low relief in a bold, stylised manner characteristic of medieval Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. The bird stands with wings partially folded, occupying the central field. The design is enclosed within a raised inner pearl border surrounded by an outer raised bead circle, both of which follow the irregular flan edge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.