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Pfennig - Leopold III, Leopold IV or Henry II
| Issuer | Margraviate of Austria (Duchy of Austria, Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1130-1140 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | An armored knight on horseback advancing to the right, rendered in a bold, schematic style typical of Romanesque die-cutting. The rider wears a conical helmet and carries a lance or sword raised in the right hand, while the horse is depicted in full stride. The equestrian figure is contained within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by a border enclosing the remnants of a partially legible Latin marginal legend. The flan is irregular, with some weakness at the edges characteristic of hammered medieval bracteate-era pfennigs. |
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Austria's Pfennig coinage of this period was produced under a margraviate still consolidating its political identity — the transition from Margraviate to Duchy would not come until the Privilegium Minus of 1156, when Frederick Barbarossa elevated Austria to satisfy the rival claims of Henry Jasomirgott. Attribution across Leopold III, Leopold IV, and Henry II remains genuinely contested because these bracteate-style denars were not systematically differentiated by their issuers, leaving modern cataloguers reliant on hoard stratigraphy and stylistic die groupings rather than documentary evidence.