Pfennig - Rudolf von Hohenegg Friesach

Rudolf von Hohenegg held the archiepiscopal see of Salzburg for only six years before his death in 1290, and his tenure was consumed largely by the political fallout of the Interregnum and the consolidation of Habsburg power in the region following Rudolf I's victory at the Marchfeld in 1278. Friesach, a major mint town in Carinthia under Salzburg's control, had been producing the bracteate-style pfennigs that dominated Alpine trade circulation since the twelfth century — the "Friesacher Pfennig" type was by this point a recognized trade currency across a wide swath of the eastern Alpine lands.

CNA Ca54 is among the scarcer attributions within the Friesach sequence for this archbishopric, with Rudolf's short reign limiting total output relative to longer-tenured predecessors.