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Pfennig Rann
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1200-1241 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (800-1500) |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of a standing bishop in liturgical vestments, his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand grasping a cross-staff from which a narrow processional banner depends. The effigy is rendered in the flat, linear style characteristic of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. A two-line circular legend in Latin script frames the design in the outer border, though the inscription is partially illegible on most known specimens. |
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| Reverse description | Bust of a bishop depicted frontally with both hands raised in an orant or supportive posture, upholding a rounded archway or arcade beneath which the figure is set. A small tower or turret rises on each side of the arch, likely representing the cathedral or a city gate, symbolic of ecclesiastical authority over Salzburg. Two concentric circular lines define the inner and outer border of the design field. The style is consistent with early 13th-century South German hammered silver pfennigs of the Salzburg archiepiscopal series. |
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Issued under Archbishop Eberhard II, who held the see from 1200 to 1246, these bracteate-style pfennigs circulated during a period when Salzburg's archbishops wielded political power rivaling that of secular princes. Eberhard II was a fierce defender of papal authority during the investiture struggles of the early thirteenth century, twice going into exile rather than submit to imperial pressure — which makes his mint's output during these decades intermittent and geographically scattered across ecclesiastical refuges.
The "Rann" designation refers to the thin, uniface fabric characteristic of southern German and Austrian regional pfennigs of this period, struck on broad flans from a single die.