Pfennig Undetermined Friesach minting

Friesach, in the Salzburg archbishopric's sphere of commercial influence, became the dominant mint for high-grade silver coinage in the eastern Alpine trade network during the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The "Friesacher Pfennig" type spread so widely — into Hungary, the Balkans, and the Crusader states — that dozens of ecclesiastical and secular lords struck imitations, making precise attribution of individual pieces a persistent problem. This example is catalogued as Carinthian but cannot be assigned to a specific mint with certainty, a situation common across the CNA Cj series.