Pfennig - Rudolf and Duke Meinhard II Friesach

Rudolf and Meinhard II governed in an unusual joint arrangement following the settlement of territorial disputes between the Archbishopric of Salzburg and the County of Tyrol — coinage struck under dual authority was a practical acknowledgment of overlapping jurisdictions in the Friesach minting region rather than any gesture of political harmony. Friesach itself had been one of the most important silver coin-producing centers in the German-speaking lands since the twelfth century, its output circulating widely across the southeastern Alpine territories and into the Balkans.