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Pfennig - Henry IV Stein in Oberkrain
| Issuer | March of Istria-Carniola (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1204-1205 |
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| Weight | 0.76 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Count Henry IV, depicted in regal attire with a pallium, the left side of which is ornamented with a row of pellets. The figure holds a boar spear (lance) in the right hand and a fleur-de-lis sceptre in the left. A circular legend in Latin script runs around the periphery, contained between two concentric circular lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | HENR[I]C[VS COME]S |
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Henry IV, Duke of Merania, held Istria and Carniola briefly in the early thirteenth century as part of the Andechs territorial expansion through the eastern Alpine reaches. The Stein mint — located at what is now Kamnik in Slovenia — was one of the few active striking facilities in Carniola at the time, and its output from this precise window is documented in only a handful of die varieties under CNA classification.