Catalog
| Issuer | Bishopric of Gurk (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1183-1210 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (1072-1500) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1183-1210) |
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The Bishopric of Gurk was carved out of the Archdiocese of Salzburg in 1072 at the insistence of Archbishop Gebhard, who placed his own family's foundation at Gurk under direct episcopal authority — a move that entangled the see in investiture politics from its very founding. The attribution to Strasbourg reflects an ongoing scholarly dispute: the bracteate-influenced penny coinage of this type circulated across a region where episcopal mints overlapped, and die analysis has not fully settled the question of origin.