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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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| Reverse description | Uniface type; the reverse is blank and unadorned, showing only the incuse impression of the obverse design as is characteristic of thin hammered medieval pfennigs of this period. The surface exhibits the typical irregular flan shape and tool marks consistent with hand-struck coinage of the 14th century. A faint square or rectangular incuse depression is visible, resulting from the anvil die used during striking. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick III of Habsburg ruled Styria during a period of fragmented Austrian ducal authority, when the Albertinian and Leopoldine lines were still consolidating territorial control following the division of 1379 — though that partition came after this coin's production window. These small bracteate-style pfennigs circulated locally at a scale beneath the notice of most chroniclers, which is precisely why documentary evidence for their exact mint attribution remains thin.
CNA D106 places this type firmly within the Styrian series, though die studies have not resolved whether striking occurred at Graz or a secondary facility.