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Pfennig - Philipp von Spanheim or Ulrich Friesach

Issuer Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States)
Year 1247-1265
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse lettering [+FRI] - ACH (?)
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Edge Plain
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Additional information

Philipp von Spanheim held the archbishopric from 1247 until his death in 1257; Ulrich II followed until 1265, and the shared attribution in the catalog literature reflects genuine uncertainty about which reign produced this particular die. The Friesach pfennig type — struck at the mint the archbishops controlled in Carinthia — dominated regional trade across the central Alpine lands for well over a century, accepted as far east as Hungary and south into the Adriatic hinterlands. Luschin's foundational work on these bracteate-adjacent denars remains the standard reference precisely because archiepiscopal mint documentation from this period is fragmentary at best.

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