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Pfennig - Unknown ruler Völkermarkt
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1290-1320 |
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| Weight | 0.73 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, being a hammered bracteate-style pfennig, displays the incuse mirror image of the obverse design. A central rosette is surrounded by a wreath composed of additional rosettes arranged in a ring, forming a decorative border within the coin's irregular flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (1290-1320) |
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Völkermarkt, situated on the Drava River in what is now southern Austria, operated a minor regional mint during the late Babenberg and early Habsburg consolidation period — precisely the window this piece falls into. The attribution to an unknown ruler reflects the genuine difficulty of assigning these thin, often poorly preserved bracteate-style pfennigs to specific Carinthian dukes, a problem compounded by the rapid succession of overlapping claims to the duchy between the extinction of the Spanheim line in 1269 and firm Habsburg control.