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Pfennig - Henry IV Stein in Oberkrain
| Issuer | March of Istria-Carniola (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1204-1228 |
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| Weight | 0.62 g |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of a standing bishop rendered in the Romanesque style, holding a crozier in his right hand and a cross in his left. The figure is depicted in ecclesiastical vestments within a beaded or double-line circular border. A Latin legend runs around the periphery between two concentric circular lines, reading +MA[R]C - [H]I[OV], referencing the March of Carniola. The crude, hand-engraved execution is characteristic of early 13th-century hammered bracteate-related coinage from the region. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Henry IV of Andechs held the march as Duke of Merania, a title his family had acquired through aggressive dynastic maneuvering in the late twelfth century. The Andechs-Meranians were deeply embedded in imperial politics — Henry's sister Hedwig became a canonized saint, his niece Gertrude was murdered by Hungarian nobles — yet the family's Carniolan coinage remains among the least studied of the German march issues. The Stein mint, situated along the Sava river trade route, served a region that was commercially active despite its peripheral position in the imperial sphere.