Catalog
Pfennig - Unknown ruler St. Veit
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1300-1350 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | A stylized rampant lion facing left in low relief, depicted within a plain square or lozenge-shaped inner field; in place of the animal's head, a cross pattée is substituted, a characteristic heraldic device associated with the Carinthian bracteate tradition. The design is rendered in the bold, schematic style typical of early 14th-century Austrian hammered coinage, with the lion's body and raised foreleg clearly articulated despite the crude execution. No legend or inscription is present in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (1300-1350) |
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St. Veit an der Glan served as the capital of Carinthia and its primary mint site through much of the medieval period, a status it held until the Habsburgs consolidated Austrian territorial administration in the fourteenth century. The anonymity of this piece — attributable only to the duchy rather than a specific ruler — reflects how unreliable written mint records from this region are for the first half of the 1300s, a stretch that saw Carinthia pass from the Counts of Gorizia through the Meinhardiner line before falling to the Habsburgs in 1335.