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Pfennig - Vladislaus of Silesia Friesach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1265-1270 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (800-1500) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a heraldic shield surmounted by an architectural motif, flanked by two Latin crosses on either side. Small annulets appear to the left and right of the shield in the mid-field. The composition is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with a plain outer rim typical of the Friesach pfennig tradition. The design is executed in high relief characteristic of mid-thirteenth-century Austrian hammered coinage. No legend is present, the entire design being purely pictorial. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, struck in bracteate-influenced style, shows a weakly impressed mirror image of the obverse design, a common characteristic of thin hammered pfennigs of this period. Two crosses are visible in the central field, with faint traces of the shield motif between them. The surface exhibits typical die wear and metal flow associated with hand-hammered medieval coinage. An irregular beaded border surrounds the design field. No inscription or legend is present on this side. |
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Vladislaus of Silesia served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1265 to 1270 — a tenure defined largely by his struggle to maintain ecclesiastical authority against the encroachments of Ottokar II of Bohemia, whose territorial ambitions across the Alpine region put constant pressure on Salzburg's independence. The Friesach mint in Carinthia had been a major silver-striking operation since the early twelfth century, its output circulating widely across Central Europe under successive archbishops. By Vladislaus's time the Friesach pfennig type was already past its commercial peak, gradually being displaced by the rising bracteate tradition further north.