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Pfennig - Otokar IV Fischau
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1164-1192 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A bold central cross with broad, expanded arms, each arm bearing an incuse or relief small cross within its face. The central cross is encircled by a double border of horseshoe-shaped ornaments, forming two concentric decorative rings characteristic of Austrian Styrian bracteate-influenced coinage of the Romanesque period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ottokar IV ruled Styria as its last independent duke before the duchy passed to the Habsburgs — though that transfer came only after his death, secured by the 1186 Georgenberg Pact, in which Ottokar, childless and ill with gout so debilitating he reportedly could not walk, ceded Styria to Duke Leopold V of Austria in exchange for care and administration during his remaining years. Coins attributed to this reign vary considerably, and the "var" designation against CNA B69 signals a die or typological divergence that the standard corpus does not fully accommodate.