Friesacher pfennig
In the Middle Ages , the Friesacher Pfennig was one of the most important means of payment in the area of today's Austria - demonstrably from around 1166, but probably as early as 1125/30 .
The silver coins are named after the city of Friesach in Carinthia , where the archbishops of Salzburg (probably during the time of Archbishop Konrad I , who ruled from 1106 to 1147) set up a mint near a silver mine located there. In the second half of the 12th century the obverse of the coin often featured the archbishop and the reverse of two church spiers. The Friesacher Pfennig reached the peak of its economic importance in the first half of the 13th century under Eberhard von Regensberg , and was traded with it until the middle of the 14th century.
Finds show that the Friesacher Pfennig was also a popular trading coin in the northern Balkans . It was imitated several times, the best known plagiarism is the coin called "Agleier" or "Aglaier", which was minted by the Lords of Aquileia and later also by the Counts of Gorizia and the Dukes of Carinthia . The competition of these means of payment as well as the lack of silver and the influence of the Habsburgs in Carinthia from 1335 finally led to the closure of the Friesach mint.
literature
- Michael Alram, Reinhard Härtel, Manfred Schreiner: The early days of the Friesacher Pfennig . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3030-9
- Günther Hödl (Hrsg.), Reinhard Härtel (Hrsg.): The Friesacher Mint in the Alps-Adriatic region . Academic printing and Publishing house, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-201-01653-5
Web links
- Money and trade at the time of the silver penny . ( Memento from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Oesterreichische Nationalbank