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Pfennig - Ottokar II St. Veit
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1275-1286 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Two addorsed or confronted upright lions sharing a single head, rendered in a schematic, high-relief style characteristic of 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennigs. The conjoined feline bodies are positioned symmetrically in the field, with limbs extended outward. The composition is enclosed within a plain inner circle bordered by a beaded ring. No legend or inscription appears on this face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ottokar II of Bohemia controlled Carinthia from 1269 following the extinction of the native Spanheim ducal line, and these pfennigs were struck at the St. Veit mint during his tenure as overlord — cut short when Rudolf of Habsburg defeated and killed him at the Battle on the Marchfeld in August 1278. The St. Veit mint had been the dominant coining authority in Carinthia since the Spanheim era, and Ottokar maintained it rather than imposing Bohemian mint practices on the region.
The dating range extends to 1286 because Rudolf's administration continued issuing from the same dies or closely related ones after Ottokar's death, making precise attribution between late Ottokar and early Habsburg issues genuinely difficult.