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Pfennig unknown ruler
| Issuer | Bishopric of Gurk (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1180-1200 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Schematic representation of a church facade in low relief, featuring a central portal flanked by two towers or columns with triangular pediment, enclosed within a double beaded border. The architectural rendering is highly stylised in the Romanesque tradition, with a dotted or beaded inner circle framing the design. The reverse image is incuse on bracteate-style specimens, as is consistent with thin hammered pfennigs of this issue. |
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| Mintage | ND (1180-1200) |
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The Bishopric of Gurk was founded in 1072 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg, and its coinage rights were exercised intermittently and often contested by the archbishops of Salzburg, who regarded Gurk as a suffragen see under their direct influence. The late twelfth century was a period of particular administrative ambiguity for Gurk, which explains why this pfennig cannot be firmly attributed to a named bishop — the documentary record for the see's rulers during this window is fragmentary.
CNA Ca1 places this as the opening entry in Gurk's bracteate-adjacent coinage sequence, suggesting it may represent the earliest locally struck issue of the bishopric.