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Pfennig - Ottokar II St. Veit
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1270-1276 |
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| Reference(s) | CNA#Cb39 |
| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the rampant Bohemian lion passant-rampant to sinister, depicted with a crowned head, bifurcated tail, and boldly rendered claws, flanked on either side by a crenellated tower. The design is struck in high relief typical of mid-13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage, with no surrounding legend. The field is plain, and the flan is irregular as characteristic of hammered medieval coinage from the St. Veit mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ottokar II of Bohemia held Carinthia through a combination of inheritance, political maneuvering, and outright force, but his grip on the duchy was always contested. His coins struck at St. Veit — the traditional minting seat of Carinthian rulers — functioned as instruments of territorial assertion as much as anything else. He lost Carinthia to Rudolf of Habsburg in 1276, the same year this issue ceases.