Catalog
Pfennig - Unknown ruler St. Veit
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1300-1350 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (800-1500) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a figure, likely a seated or enthroned ecclesiastical or secular authority, rendered in low relief with broad, simplified forms. The composition occupies the majority of the flan, with no surrounding legend. The striking is off-center and the flan edges are irregular, as is typical of hammered pfennigs of this period and region. The reverse design is consistent with Carinthian pfennig types attributed to the St. Veit mint in the early 14th century. |
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| Mint | St. Veit an der Glan |
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St. Veit an der Glan served as the ducal capital of Carinthia through much of the medieval period, and coins struck there during the first half of the fourteenth century span some of the most turbulent succession struggles in the duchy's history — including the extinction of the Meinhardiner line in 1335 and the subsequent transfer of Carinthia to the Habsburgs under Duke Albert II. The attribution to an unknown ruler is not unusual for this series; the CNA cataloguing of Carinthian bracteate-adjacent pfennigs frequently cannot resolve specific reigns from die evidence alone.