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Pfennig - Rudolf and Duke Meinhard II Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1286-1320 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, as typical of this Friesach pfennig type, displays an incuse or weakly struck mirror impression of the obverse design owing to the thin silver flan and hammered production technique. A bird, likely an eagle, is discernible in low relief facing left, consistent with the heraldic motif associated with the joint coinage of Archbishop Rudolf of Hoheneck and Duke Meinhard II of Carinthia-Tyrol. The field is otherwise plain with no legend or border inscription. |
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| Mint | Friesach |
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The Friesach pfennig type was among the most widely circulated coinages in the medieval Eastern Alpine trade network, copied by dozens of ecclesiastical and secular mints across Carinthia, Styria, and Slovenia from the late twelfth century onward. This joint issue reflects the fractious but commercially pragmatic relationship between the Archbishopric of Salzburg and the County of Tyrol under Meinhard II, who spent much of his reign consolidating territorial control against exactly the kind of ecclesiastical authority that co-signed this coin.