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Pfennig - Imperial administration or interregnum
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1236-1251 |
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| Value | Denier (Pfennig) (1) |
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| Obverse description | Armored equestrian figure advancing to the right, wearing a crown and carrying a sword raised over the right shoulder. The rider is depicted in profile atop a walking horse, rendered in the stylized manner typical of medieval Austrian bracteate-related pfennigs. The design is enclosed within a beaded circle border. The irregular flan and bold relief are characteristic of hammered coinage of the Babenberg interregnum period. |
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| Reverse description | A stag passant to the right, head turned back to the left in the heraldic regardant posture, rendered in a flat, stylized medieval manner. The device is flanked above and below by a pair of horizontal lines, with a star motif positioned between them, likely serving as a mint or workshop indicator. The reverse design is struck on an irregular flan consistent with hand-hammered coinage of thirteenth-century Austria. |
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The dating range here brackets one of the most turbulent stretches in Austrian ducal history. Frederick II "the Quarrelsome" was deposed by Emperor Frederick II in 1236, leaving the duchy under direct imperial administration until the duke's restoration in 1239 — and then again in limbo after Frederick the Quarrelsome died without an heir at the Battle of the Leitha in 1246, triggering an interregnum that dragged on until Rudolf of Habsburg's eventual ascent decades later. Coins struck during these gaps in ducal authority are notoriously difficult to assign precisely, as the administrative machinery kept minting without consistent attribution.