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Pfennig unknown ruler
| Issuer | Bishopric of Gurk (Austrian States) |
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| Weight | 0.91 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized architectural representation of a church or cathedral facade, depicted in a highly schematic, linear manner typical of medieval Austrian bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage; the roof and towers terminate in distinctive knob-like finials at the ends of the grooves. The design fills the field without a surrounding legend, and the entire composition is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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The Bishopric of Gurk, founded in 1072 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg, operated as a suffragan see whose coinage rights were exercised intermittently and often poorly documented — the unknown ruler attribution here is not cataloger's laziness but a genuine reflection of how little episcopal mint records from Carinthia survived the medieval period. CNA Cq1 places this among the earliest pfennig issues from Gurk, a series defined more by its gaps than its continuities.