Leopold IV held the march only five years before his death in 1141, a tenure too short to establish a substantial mint program. These bracteate-style pfennigs from the period fall within the transitional phase when Austrian minting was still loosely organized under Bavarian influence — Leopold himself had been Duke of Bavaria simultaneously, a dual title that complicated the attribution of several coin types to one authority or the other. CNA B18 represents one of the cleaner attributions in an otherwise messy sequence.
Leopold IV held the march only five years before his death in 1141, a tenure too short to establish a substantial mint program. These bracteate-style pfennigs from the period fall within the transitional phase when Austrian minting was still loosely organized under Bavarian influence — Leopold himself had been Duke of Bavaria simultaneously, a dual title that complicated the attribution of several coin types to one authority or the other. CNA B18 represents one of the cleaner attributions in an otherwise messy sequence.