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Pfennig - Leopold VI Vienna
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1210-1230 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | An eagle displayed facing sinister occupies the central field, with a small ring or annulet visible on each side of the neck. The design is rendered in the bold, somewhat schematic style characteristic of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennigs. The surrounding field is plain, framed by the irregular flan edge typical of hammered coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leopold VI ruled Austria and Styria simultaneously from 1194 until his death in 1230, and his Viennese mint was among the most productive in the German-speaking lands during this period. The bracteate-adjacent pfennigs of this era circulated under periodic renewal ordinances — Verrufung — requiring subjects to exchange old coins for new ones at a fee, a fiscal mechanism that made hoarding actively punitive and drove consistent reminting cycles throughout his reign.