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Pfennig - Otokar IV Fischau
| Issuer | Duchy of Styria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1164-1192 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central rosette cross with a small cross ornament at each arm tip; the design is enclosed within an inner pearl circle border, beyond which an alternating wreath of horseshoes and crosses forms the outermost decorative ring of the field. |
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| Reverse description | An upright open hand depicted centrally in the field, flanked on each side by a small cross; the central motif is surrounded by two concentric pearl circles with dots interspersed between them, and the composition is framed by an outer decorative wreath of horseshoes. |
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Ottokar IV ruled Styria during a period of acute dynastic instability, ultimately dying without an heir in 1192 — the event that triggered the transfer of Styria to the Babenberg Duke of Austria under the terms of the Georgenberger Handfeste, one of the earliest written constitutional documents in the German-speaking lands. Coins of his reign are among the last issued under independent Styrian authority before that absorption.