Catalog
Pfennig Undetermined Friesach minting
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1220-1230 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Frontal facing bust of the Duke in regal attire, depicted holding two diagonal flags or standards whose tips meet above his head in a symmetrical arrangement. The effigy is rendered in the flat, stylized manner characteristic of medieval Austrian hammered coinage. A circular legend in Latin script is contained between two concentric linear borders enclosing the central device. |
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| Obverse lettering | [+EREVPI*EH]R[AS] |
| Reverse description | Facing bust of an angel with prominent, towering wings flanking the figure on either side, rendered in the stylized manner typical of Friesach-type pfennigs. Above the angel's head rises a crenellated tower with a pointed roof, serving as a distinctive civic or ecclesiastical symbol associated with the Friesach mint. A Latin legend encircles the central device, contained between two concentric linear borders. |
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