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.
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.