Pfennig Gutenwerth

Carinthian pfennigs of this period — bracteates and thin-flan types collectively called Friesacher Pfennige in the broader regional tradition — circulated extensively across the eastern Alpine trade routes during the 13th century, reaching as far as the Levant through merchant and crusader networks. Gutenwerth, an island in the Wörthersee, hosted an Augustinian priory whose minting rights were tied directly to ecclesiastical land grants, making this issue one of several competing local coinages that frustrated attempts at monetary unification under the Babenberg and later Přemyslid administrations.