Pfennig - Leopold VI

Leopold VI ruled Austria and Styria simultaneously from 1194 until his death in 1230, presiding over a court that attracted minnesingers and hosted the Fifth Crusade's political aftermath — including the controversial detention of crusaders returning through his lands. His pfennigs were struck as bracteates or near-bracteates at a time when Austrian coinage was transitioning away from the thin single-sided fabric common in the German-speaking lands. CNA B127 places this type firmly within that transition, a narrow window when the duchy's monetary output was reshaping itself under sustained ducal authority.