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Pfennig - Otakar IV Fischau
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1164-1192 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Armored rider advancing to the right, brandishing a sword raised in his right hand. Three pellets appear in the field behind the horse and rider. The figure is rendered in a schematic, flat Romanesque style characteristic of 12th-century Styrian pfennig coinage, set within a beaded inner circle and plain outer border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1164-1192) |
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Otakar IV ruled Styria through a period of acute dynastic tension — he died childless in 1192, and the resulting Georgenberg Pact transferred the duchy to the Babenberg Duke of Austria, effectively ending Styrian independence. This pfennig was struck at Fischau, a mint active under Otakar that would lose its significance almost immediately after the Babenberg succession reshaped the region's monetary administration.