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1/2 Batzen - Leopold V of Tyrol
| Issuer | Imperial Abbeys of Murbach and Lüders |
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| Year | 1614-1625 |
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| Thickness | 0.2 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | +LEOPOLD.AR.AV.M.E.LV.ADM. (Translation: Leopold Archduke of Austria, Administrator of Murbach and Lüders Abbeys) |
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| Mintage | ND (1614-1625) |
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Murbach and Lüders, twin Alsatian abbeys operating under a single abbot, held the unusual privilege of minting their own coinage despite controlling no significant secular territory. Leopold V — simultaneously Archduke of Austria and, from 1626, Bishop of Strasbourg — served as their administrator during a period when the Thirty Years' War was beginning to disrupt currency circulation across the Upper Rhine. Billon fractions like this half Batzen filled the chronic small-change vacuum that larger silver issues could not address.