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Pfennig - Henry IV Windischgrätz
| Issuer | March of Istria-Carniola (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1204-1228 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (1000-1600) |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned figure, likely an angel or ecclesiastical personage, seated facing, holding a cross-staff in the right hand and a crook (crozier) in the left. The effigy is rendered in a stylized Romanesque manner characteristic of Friesacher Pfennig coinage. A circular legend in Latin script appears in the field between two concentric border lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | [GRACE - N]SES |
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Henry IV of Windischgrätz held authority over Carniola during a period when the march was caught between competing Babenberg and Andechs dynastic pressures. These thin bracteate-style pfennigs were the practical currency of a fragmented Alpine-Adriatic frontier — not prestige coinage, but working money moving through toll stations and market towns along the routes connecting the Adriatic hinterland to the upper Sava valley.