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Pfennig - Leopold V or Leopold VI

Issuer Duchy of Styria (Austrian States)
Year 1177-1230
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Value 1 Pfennig
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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The attribution to either Leopold V or Leopold VI reflects a genuine scholarly impasse — the two dukes' Styrian issues overlap in type and cannot be separated by die study alone. Leopold V acquired Styria in 1192 following the Treaty of Georgenberg, which transferred the duchy from the Otakars upon Duke Ottokar IV's death without an heir. His son Leopold VI, one of the wealthier princes of the German-speaking world in the early thirteenth century, continued the same minting traditions without meaningful typological break, which is precisely why the problem persists.

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