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Pfennig - Henry V St. Veit
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1157-1158 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Architectural facade depicting a fortified wall with five annulet-points set into the masonry, above which rise three slender towers with pointed roofs rendered in a stylized Romanesque manner. A single annulet appears to each side of the tower grouping, flanking the composition symmetrically. The design likely references the city of St. Veit an der Glan, the ducal seat of Carinthia, and is characteristic of the civic and dynastic iconography employed on Carinthian coinage of the mid-12th century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henry V of Carinthia ruled the duchy for less than a decade before dying without legitimate heirs in 1161, triggering a succession dispute that eventually drew in the Babenberg dukes of Austria. This pfennig belongs to the St. Veit mint, which served as the primary ducal mint of Carinthia — St. Veit an der Glan remained the capital and administrative center of the duchy well into the thirteenth century, long after Henry's line had expired.
CNA Cb6 is a bracteate-influenced thin denar of the southern Alpine type, distinct from contemporary Rhenish issues.