Carinthian pfennig
Kärntner Pfennig is an umbrella term for Carinthian coins. Colloquially, however, it usually refers to the so-called Friesacher Pfennig , which was known far beyond the borders of Carinthia.
Carinthian pennies
Friesacher pfennig
The Friesacher Pfennig was minted around 1200 . It is the oldest documented coinage of the Middle Ages in the Carinthian area. It was a so-called four - pound penny . This coin was extremely successful and developed into the first supraregional trade coin of the Middle Ages. The Friesacher pfennig was a silver pfennig. At that time very productive silver mining was carried out around Friesach , which also gave the pfennig its name: The main mint was Friesach. At that time Friesach was part of the Salzburg archbishopric , whose secular ruler was Archbishop Konrad I , who had large estates in Carinthia.
The success of the Friesacher Pfennig was so great that it was approved as the official national currency by the Hungarian King Andreas II ( 1205 - 1235 ). The Friesacher Pfennig was traded at the height of its spread, in the first half of the 13th century, in Dalmatia , Northern Italy , Hungary , Croatia , Slovenia , Transylvania , Slovakia and the Czech Republic .
St. Veiter Pfennig
The Carinthian Duke Ulrich III. ( 1256 - 1269 ) coined the so-called St. Veiter Pfennig, a four-stroke pfennig . The pfennig was minted in direct competition with the Friesacher pfennig of the Archbishop of Salzburg, but was not nearly as successful. This was the most famous of many imitations of the Friesacher Pfennig. The Friesacher Pfennig was also imitated by many other sovereigns.
Big Carinthian honor penny
The Großer Kärntner Ehrpfennig is a medal that was first minted in 1597 on behalf of the Carinthian estates . Only a few copies have survived, but no gold coinage. The coinage was never intended for normal money trading and should rather be understood as a medal of honor.