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Pfennig - Leopold III, Leopold IV or Henry II
| Issuer | Margraviate of Austria (Duchy of Austria, Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1130-1140 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (976-1278) |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of an armed figure, the head turned to the left. The figure holds a lance with pennant in the right hand and a shield in the left hand, rendered in the flat, linear style typical of early 12th-century Austrian hammered coinage. A deceptive or pseudo-inscription encircles the figure between two concentric beaded borders, imitating a formal legend without legible text. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The CNA B13 type sits in one of the most frustrating attribution problems in Austrian medieval numismatics — the coin cannot be assigned with certainty to Leopold III, Leopold IV, or Henry II of Austria, all of whom issued bracteate-influenced pfennigs from the same mints during the same decade. The overlapping reigns and near-identical minting practices of this period make die-by-die attribution essentially impossible without a hoard provenance. Scholarship has not resolved this in over a century of trying.