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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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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Frontal facing bust of a bishop in ecclesiastical vestments, with both arms raised and extended laterally, each hand supporting a crenellated tower. The two towers are joined at their bases by a three-merloned archway, forming a stylised architectural composition across the lower field. The figure is rendered in the flat, schematic manner characteristic of Austrian hammered bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Friesach pfennigs were among the most internationally circulated medieval coins of Central Europe, used extensively in trade across the Adriatic corridor and referenced in Italian merchant accounts as a de facto regional currency. Rudolf von Hohenegg, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1284 to 1290, governed a mint at Friesach that had been operating since the early twelfth century under episcopal authority — one of the oldest and most productive in the German-speaking lands. The attribution range of this type extends past Rudolf's tenure because the dies were not systematically retired between archiepiscopal reigns.