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Pfennig - Ottokar II of Bohemia Graz
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1260-1276 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Armored knight on horseback advancing to the right, depicted in a robust, stylized medieval manner characteristic of 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. The rider wears a conical helmet and carries a lance or sword, seated on a striding horse rendered with bold, raised relief. A six-pointed star appears in the upper right field. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with the flan exhibiting the irregular, roughly square-trimmed outline typical of hammered Styrian pfennigs of this period. |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse type, showing the armored horseman and horse in sunken relief as is characteristic of the single-die hammered pfennig technique used in the Styrian mint at Graz during the reign of Ottokar II. Concentric arched lines are visible in the lower portion of the field, a stylistic convention common to Styrian denars of this era. The surface shows natural flow lines and die-stress marks consistent with hand-struck medieval coinage. |
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| Mint | Graz |
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