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Pfennig - Rudolf I St. Veit
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1275-1286 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bust of an angel in high relief positioned above a crenellated architectural element rendered as a battlemented rafter or parapet, referencing the minting location of St. Veit an der Glan. Within the surrounding inscription circle, star-shaped ornaments and letter-like or pseudo-epigraphic symbols are distributed, consistent with the decorative conventions of Carinthian pfennig coinage of the late 13th century. The overall composition reflects the Gothic artistic vocabulary common to hammered Austrian regional issues of the reign of Rudolf I. |
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| Mintage | ND (1275-1286) |
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Rudolf I of Habsburg became Duke of Carinthia in 1276 after defeating Ottokar II of Bohemia, who had consolidated control over much of the Austrian duchies in the preceding decades. St. Veit an der Glan was the traditional capital and minting center of Carinthia, and coins struck there carried the political weight of Rudolf's reassertion of Habsburg authority over territories Ottokar had held for nearly twenty years. The frächische Pfennig type produced at St. Veit during this window belongs to a transitional moment before Rudolf reorganized ducal administration and redistributed the territories among his sons.