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Pfennig - Berthold III Stein in Oberkrain
| Issuer | Counts of Andechs (Duchy of Merania, Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1183 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Frontal half-length effigy of a bishop or high-ranking clergyman rendered in flat, stylized Romanesque relief, holding a crozier in the right hand and a book (Gospel) in the left. The figure is depicted facing the viewer within a plain inner circle, with the design characteristic of the crude, high-relief hammered bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage of the late 12th century. No legend is present in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Berthold III held the county of Andechs at a moment when the dynasty was aggressively consolidating territorial influence across the eastern Alpine approaches, and the minting of coinage at Stein in Oberkrain — modern-day Kamnik in Slovenia — reflects that push into Carniolan territory. The Counts of Andechs would be elevated to Dukes of Merania just two years after this issue, in 1185, making coins struck under the comital title increasingly rare by dynastic logic alone.