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1/2 Albus - Charles Caspar of the Leyen
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1657-1666 |
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| Weight | 0.96 g |
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| Obverse lettering | CARL CASP DG ARCH TREV PE AD PRVM |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles Caspar von der Leyen held the archbishopric of Trier during one of the most administratively difficult stretches in the electorate's history — the region was still recovering from decades of occupation and devastation left by the Thirty Years' War, which had ended only in 1648. Small silver fractions like this half albus served the grinding work of local commerce in a territory whose larger coinage had been severely disrupted by wartime monetary disorder and foreign troop requisitions.
The albus denomination itself had roots in Rhenish monetary tradition going back to the 14th century, and its persistence into the 1650s and 60s reflects how conservative ecclesiastical mints tended to be.