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Pfennig Undetermined Friesach minting
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1210-1230 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Bust of an angel with outstretched wings displayed, rendered in the Romanesque hammered style characteristic of Friesach coinage. A three-towered structure rises above the angel's head, likely representing an ecclesiastical or civic edifice. A Latin legend encircles the central motif, contained between two concentric linear borders. |
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Friesach, in what is now the Austrian state of Carinthia, was one of the most productive minting centers in the German-speaking world during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The so-called Friesacher Pfennig circulated far beyond its region of origin — documented in hoards from Hungary, Bohemia, and the Balkans — because it maintained a reliable silver standard at a time when coinage across Central Europe was being systematically debased. Multiple lords held minting rights at Friesach simultaneously, including the Archbishop of Salzburg, making precise attribution of individual dies a persistent problem that the CNA classification reflects honestly.