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Pfennig Undetermined Friesach marks, Peilenstein
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1200-1230 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned duke seated facing, arms akimbo with hands placed on hips, holding a fleur-de-lis scepter in his left hand. The figure is rendered in the Romanesque style typical of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. A Latin legend runs around the periphery, contained between two beaded circles, partially legible as [---]Vpo[---]. |
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| Obverse lettering | [---]Vpo[---] |
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Friesach pfennigs were among the most widely circulated silver coins in Central Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, accepted across trade routes stretching from the Alpine passes into the Levantine markets. The Peilenstein mint operated under episcopal rather than ducal authority for much of this period, which complicates attribution — the "undetermined marks" designation reflects a genuine scholarly impasse, not a cataloging gap that later research has resolved.
CNA Cq27 sits in a cluster of closely related bracteate-influenced pfennig types where die linkage studies have so far failed to produce clean mint assignments.