Pfennig - Meinhard II, Otto III, Austrian occupation or Henry VI St. Veit

Carinthia passed through a succession crisis in the late thirteenth century that directly explains the attribution uncertainty in this type. When the last native Carinthian duke died in 1269, the duchy fell to Ottokar II of Bohemia, then to Rudolf of Habsburg after Ottokar's defeat at Marchfeld in 1278. The subsequent decades saw contested governance among Meinhard II of Tyrol-Görz, his son Otto III, and periods of direct Austrian administration — which is precisely why the minting authority for St. Veit issues of this period remains difficult to assign with confidence.