| 裏面の説明 |
A centaur depicted in left profile with head turned back over its shoulder, rendered in the Romanesque artistic tradition common to south German and Austrian minting of the period. The creature holds a battle-axe raised in its right hand and what appears to be a dagger or fish in its left hand, with stars scattered in the open field around the figure. The outer border features illusionary or pseudo-epigraphic writing, imitating a formal legend without conveying a legible text, a decorative convention found on several Austrian pfennigs of this era. |
Formbach was one of the smaller Bavarian border counties, its minting activity compressed into a narrow dynastic window before the comital line collapsed entirely in 1158, when the county was absorbed following the extinction of the male line. The attribution to either Werinto or Dietrich reflects an unresolved question in medieval numismatics — the CNA catalogers declined to assign the piece definitively, and no documentary source yet closes the argument.