Pfennig - Ottokar II St. Veit

Ottokar II of Bohemia held Carinthia from 1269 following the extinction of the Spanheim ducal line, ruling it as part of a sprawling central European domain that briefly made him the most powerful prince in the Holy Roman Empire. His ambitions cost him everything: Rudolf of Habsburg defeated and killed him at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278, after which Carinthia passed through a rapid succession of hands. The St. Veit mint — the ducal seat of Carinthia — was active throughout Ottokar's tenure there, producing pfennigs within a narrow window before his political collapse.