| 裏面の説明 |
Depicted in low relief, a mounted equestrian figure is shown in profile facing right, seated upon a horse in a striding pose, with the rider appearing to carry a weapon or sceptre. To the left of the horse, a crescent or curved device is visible, a common heraldic or symbolic element on Formbach coinage of this period. The die work is rough and schematic, typical of hammered pfennigs struck under regional Austrian county authority in the first half of the 12th century. The flan is irregular and the reverse strike notably weaker than the obverse, with some areas of flat strike at the periphery. |
Formbach was a small but strategically positioned county in the Inn river valley, and its minting activity in the twelfth century reflects the fragmented monetary authority that characterized the pre-Hohenstaufen Alpine borderlands. The attribution to either Werinto or Dietrich remains unresolved — both were counts of Formbach active in this period, and the CNA cataloguers declined to assign the issue to either with confidence.
The county itself was absorbed into Bavarian noble networks following the extinction of the Formbach line in 1144, making this bracteate-adjacent pfennig among the last issues produced under independent comital authority there.