Pfennig - Rudolf I of Habsburg

Rudolf I seized Austria in 1276 after defeating and killing Ottokar II of Bohemia at the Battle on the Marchfeld — or rather, the battle came two years later in 1278, with the intervening period spent consolidating control through legal and military pressure. The pfennigs struck under his authority during this window represent the first Habsburg coinage on Austrian soil, issued from a dynasty that would hold the territory for the next six centuries. CNA B 183 is among the earlier attributions in that sequence.