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Pfennig - Henry IV Windischgrätz
| Issuer | March of Istria-Carniola (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1204-1228 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Frontal seated figure of the ruler, holding a lily scepter in the left hand with the right hand resting at the hip, rendered in the Romanesque stylistic tradition typical of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate coinage. The enthroned effigy is depicted in a schematic, hieratic manner characteristic of the period. A circular legend in Latin script runs between two concentric borders composed of lily ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | + HEIN[I] - .aMV |
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Henry IV of Windischgrätz held the march during a period of fragmented Babenberg administration, when coinage rights in the region were contested between secular lords and episcopal authorities. The Pfennigs attributed to his tenure fall within the broader Friesacher Pfennig tradition — the dominant commercial coinage of the eastern Alpine trade network — though issues from the March of Istria-Carniola occupy a distinctly subordinate position within that series, produced in smaller quantities and circulating primarily in local exchange rather than long-distance commerce.