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Pfennig - Konrad III Lords of Auffenstein, Windischgrätz
| Issuer | Lords of Auffenstein (Duchy of Carinthia) |
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| Year | 1334 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design, as is typical of thin hammered silver Pfennige of this period and region. A roughly rectangular shield-like outline is faintly discernible in the field, likely representing the heraldic arms of the Auffenstein lords. The surface is worn and shows characteristic flow lines from the hammering process, with the flan edges remaining irregular and uneven throughout. |
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| Mint | Windischgrätz Mint |
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The Lords of Auffenstein were a ministerial family who held the lordship of Windischgrätz — modern Slovenj Gradec in northern Slovenia — as vassals of the Duchy of Carinthia. Konrad III's coinage rights derived from delegated comital authority rather than any independent sovereignty, making these small pfennigs the product of a genuinely local monetary franchise rather than a territorial mint in the institutional sense.
The Auffenstein line died out in the later fourteenth century, absorbed into Habsburgian consolidation of Carinthian lordships. CNA Ch36 remains thinly documented in circulation finds.