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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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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Obverse description | A crenellated central tower flanked by two smaller side towers, each surmounted by a cross, rises above a gabled arch; a bishop's head appears above the gable in the upper field. A six-pointed star is placed beneath the gable in the lower field. The entire design is enclosed within a double border composed of a line and a ring of beads. The strike is characteristically irregular, as is typical of mid-13th-century Austrian hammered bracteate-style pfennigs. |
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| Mintage | ND (1247-1265) |
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Philipp von Spanheim held the Salzburg archbishopric under persistent pressure from the Babenberg duchy and later the interregnum chaos following Frederick II's death in 1250. The attribution to Ulrich reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty — both archbishops issued bracteate-style pfennigs from Friesach, a mint that had been producing silver coinage since the twelfth century and whose output circulated widely across Styria and Carinthia.
Friesach pfennigs of this period are among the most archaeologically documented coins in the eastern Alpine region, recovered in hoards consistently associated with trade disruption during the 1250s interregnum.