Pfennig - Rudolf I St. Veit

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.