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Pfennig - Leopold VI Graz
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1194-1230 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Duke Leopold VI within a beaded inner circle, the figure depicted with a crown above and stylized facial features rendered in low relief characteristic of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate-style coinage. The bust is shown frontally with schematic drapery indicated at the shoulders, and decorative elements flanking the head. The overall composition is confined within a broad flat border, with no legible legend, consistent with anonymous ducal denarii of the Styrian mint at Graz. |
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| Mintage | ND (1194-1230) |
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Leopold VI ruled Styria from 1194 until his absorption of the duchy into his existing Duchy of Austria in 1198, thereafter governing both territories until his death in 1230. These bracteate-style pfennigs were struck under his authority as part of the decentralized regional coinage that characterized Alpine monetary practice in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries — each major lord effectively running his own mint with minimal imperial oversight. The Graz attribution distinguishes this issue from Leopold's Austrian pfennigs struck at other centers.