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Pfennig - Henry IV Gutenwerth
| Issuer | March of Istria-Carniola (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1220-1228 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Full-length armored figure facing forward, brandishing a sword in each raised hand, rendered in a schematic medieval style typical of Austrian bracteate-influenced coinage. A circular legend in Latin script is inscribed between two concentric linear borders enclosing the central device. The figure's military character evokes the martial authority of the issuing margrave. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Henry IV of Andechs held the march jointly as part of the Andechs-Meran dynasty's brief but aggressive expansion across the eastern Alpine borderlands, a tenure cut short when the entire dynasty collapsed under a cloud of suspicion following the 1208 assassination of King Philip of Swabia — an act in which Henry's own brother, Duke Otto I, was directly implicated. The Andechs lands were forfeit for years thereafter, making administrative coinage from surviving pockets of their authority genuinely rare by circumstance rather than by low mintage.
The Gutenwerth mint, on an island in the Wörthersee, issued bracteate-style pfennigs of notably thin fabric for the region.