Pfennig Gutenwerth

Issued under the Spanheim dukes of Carinthia during a period when regional bracteate-influenced coinage was giving way to thicker penny types across the Alpine duchies, these pfennigs take their name from Gutenwerth — the island monastery of Maria Wörth's associated settlement on the Wörthersee. Mint attribution for this type rests largely on die studies compiled in the Corpus Nummorum Austriacorum, as contemporary documentary evidence for Carinthian mint operations in the 1230s is fragmentary at best.