Pfennig - Ekbert II and Ekbert III

Formbach, a small county on the Bavarian-Austrian frontier, produced coinage during a period when minting rights were exercised by local nobility with considerable autonomy from imperial oversight. Ekbert II and his successor Ekbert III ruled during the mid-twelfth century, a period when the Babenberg consolidation of power in Austria was steadily absorbing or marginalizing smaller dynastic houses like Formbach.

The county's line died out shortly after this issue, with Formbach holdings passing through inheritance to the Bavarian dukes. Coins attributable to this final generation of Formbach rulers are correspondingly scarce.