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Pfennig - Philipp von Spanheim or Ulrich Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1247-1265 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Frontal facing bust of a secular male figure rendered in a flat, archaic Romanesque style, holding a sword in one hand and a lance in the other, symbolizing temporal authority. The figure is depicted in a schematic, linear fashion consistent with mid-13th-century Austrian hammered silver coinage. The design is enclosed within an outer circle of raised lines forming the border of the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The mid-thirteenth century Salzburg pfennige present a persistent attribution problem that has occupied specialists for decades. Both Philipp von Spanheim and Ulrich von Seckau held the see during overlapping or contested periods, and the die evidence does not cleanly resolve which episcopate produced which issues — hence the dual attribution that survives in the CNA classification itself.
Friesach, named in the attribution, was the dominant minting center for Salzburg's coinage throughout this period, and the thin bracteate-adjacent fabric of these pieces reflects the broader south German pfennig tradition that spread through Alpine trade routes during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.