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Pfennig - Rudolf von Hohenegg or later Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1286-1320 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized archiepiscopal figure rendered in the flat, schematic manner characteristic of late 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage. The design features a frontal bust or enthroned figure with arms extended, holding what appears to be a crozier to the left and a cross or book to the right, set within a beaded inner circle. The composition is bold and deeply struck, with geometric, almost abstract rendering of drapery folds. The flan is irregular and slightly cracked at the lower edge, typical of hammered silver issues of this period. No legible legend is present on this side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Friesach pfennigs were among the most commercially dominant coins in the medieval Adriatic and Balkan trade networks from the late twelfth century onward, copied by regional lords across Styria, Carinthia, and the Croatian littoral precisely because merchants demanded them. By Rudolf von Hohenegg's tenure the type had been in continuous production for over a century, and distinguishing archiepiscopal strikes from imitations — even contemporaneous ones — remains a persistent attribution problem. CNA Ca69a sits in that contested zone.