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Pfennig - Leopold III
| Issuer | Margraviate of Austria (Duchy of Austria, Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1110-1120 |
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| Value | Denier (Pfennig) (1) |
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| Obverse description | Central plain cross with annulets (rings) in each of the four angles. Inward-pointing triangles are distributed throughout the legend area, lending the field a decorative, geometric character consistent with Romanesque die-cutting conventions of the early twelfth century. |
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| Reverse description | A labarum (standard/gonfalon) surmounted by a cross, flanked on either side by a seated captive figure rendered in the crude but expressive style typical of Austrian bracteate-period coinage. The inscription area is filled with alternating cross (+) and annulet (o) motifs in place of a conventional legend. |
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Leopold III — later canonized in 1485 and adopted as patron saint of Austria — was margrave during a period when the Babenberg dynasty was carefully navigating the Investiture Controversy between empire and papacy. His pfennigs belong to the broad denarius tradition of the German-speaking lands, where regional lords struck bracteate and half-bracteate types under imperial privilege. The CNA B3 classification places this among the earliest systematically catalogued Babenberg issues, a series notoriously difficult to attribute with precision given the absence of mint names on the coins themselves.