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Pfennig unknown ruler
| Issuer | Bishopric of Gurk (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1200-1241 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Frontal effigy of a seated bishop in full pontifical vestments, holding a crosier in his right hand and an open book in his left. The figure is rendered in a hieratic, Romanesque style characteristic of 13th-century Austrian ecclesiastical coinage. A partial Latin legend surrounds the central device in the field. The crude, hand-struck flan imparts an irregular outline typical of hammered medieval pfennigs. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Bishopric of Gurk was founded in 1072 as a suffragan see of Salzburg, and its coinage rights — exercised sporadically through the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries — were always subordinate to the political pressures of that powerful archbishopric to the north. The attribution window of 1200–1241 reflects genuine uncertainty about which of several bishops authorized the dies.
The CNA reference places this among a cluster of Kärnten bracteate-adjacent types where episcopal and secular minting overlapped uncomfortably.