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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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| Currency | Pfennig (800-1500) |
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| Obverse description | Frontal enthroned figure of a ruler or bishop, depicted in schematic Romanesque style, wearing a crown or mitre and holding a sceptre or crozier in the right hand; the figure is flanked by smaller architectural or decorative elements. A partial Latin legend surrounds the central design, partially legible along the upper arc. The flan is irregular, as is characteristic of hammered medieval coinage of the Friesach type. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Friesach, in what is now southern Austria, was one of the most important minting centers in the German-speaking lands during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries — its silver pfennigs circulated so widely across Central Europe and the Balkans that "Friesacher" became a generic term for quality coinage in regional commerce. The town sat on the Archbishop of Salzburg's territory, but the Dukes of Carinthia maintained competing minting rights there, producing issues that are notoriously difficult to attribute with precision. CNA Cj64 falls into that contested zone.