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Pfennig - Henry IV Windischgrätz
| Issuer | March of Istria-Carniola (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1204-1228 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of a bishop or ecclesiastical figure depicted within a framed field, shown in high relief characteristic of Austrian bracteate-style pfennige. The figure appears vested in liturgical robes and holds a staff or crozier to one side. The surrounding Latin legend, partially legible, reads + G[RAC] - EnSES, arranged around the periphery of the flan. The irregular hammered flan displays characteristic surface patina and die wear consistent with early 13th-century coinage of the region. |
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| Mint | Windischgrätz |
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Henry IV of Windischgrätz held the march as a ministerial lord under the Babenberg dukes of Austria, and the coinage struck under his authority reflects the fragmented minting rights typical of the eastern Alpine marches in the early thirteenth century. The March of Istria-Carniola sat at a contested crossroads between Aquileian ecclesiastical ambition and Babenberg territorial expansion, and local silver issues like this pfennig functioned as much as political declarations of local authority as they did commercial instruments. The CNA Ch8 classification places it within a well-documented but sparsely surviving series.