Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Pfennig - Leopold VI Graz
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1194-1230 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | CNA#D8 |
| Obverse description | Facing bust of Duke Leopold VI within a beaded inner circle, the figure depicted with a crown above and stylized facial features rendered in low relief characteristic of early 13th-century Austrian bracteate-style coinage. The bust is shown frontally with schematic drapery indicated at the shoulders, and decorative elements flanking the head. The overall composition is confined within a broad flat border, with no legible legend, consistent with anonymous ducal denarii of the Styrian mint at Graz. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse displays a horseman or animal figure in motion within a beaded inner circle, rendered in the highly stylized and abstracted manner typical of hammered bracteate-influenced pfennigs of the early medieval Austrian principalities. The design appears as a silhouette-like form against the flat field, enclosed within a broad raised rim. No legend is present. The irregular flan edge and die-struck relief are consistent with hand-hammered production at the Graz mint during the reign of Leopold VI. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |