Pfennig - Frederick the Fair Graz

Frederick the Fair ruled as Duke of Austria and Styria while simultaneously pressing his claim to the German kingship — a contest that ended with his capture at the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322 and three years of imprisonment under Louis IV of Bavaria. Styrian pfennigs of this period circulated across a fractured political landscape where contested authority made consistent minting difficult, and issues attributable specifically to Graz remain among the harder pieces to pin to a narrow date range within his tenure.