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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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| Weight | 0.68 g |
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| Obverse description | Frontal effigy of a bishop presented beneath a church gable or architectural canopy, rendered in a flat, stylized Romanesque manner characteristic of 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennigs. The figure is depicted facing, with vestments suggested by linear drapery folds. The architectural element above forms a pointed gable framing the bust. The design field is enclosed by a double border composed of lines and beading, with the flan exhibiting the irregular, wavy edge typical of hammered medieval silver coinage. |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate-type pfennig, the reverse presents a weakly incuse, mirror-image impression of the obverse design, showing the faint outline of the bishop's effigy and architectural canopy in negative relief. The surface is unmarked save for this incidental transfer from the obverse die, with a plain, unworked field typical of single-die hammered medieval pfennigs of the Salzburg region. |
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Philipp von Spanheim held the archbishopric from 1247 until his death in 1257, after which Ulrich von Seckau governed the see through 1265 — the attribution ambiguity in the CNA catalog reflects genuine uncertainty about where in that sequence this particular die falls. Friesach, a major minting center in Carinthia under Salzburg's authority, had by this period been producing bracteate-style pfennigs for over a century, its output circulating widely across the Alpine trade routes connecting Italy to the Danube basin.