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1/2 Kreuzer - Thomas Franz
| Issuer | Reichenau, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1740 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Reichenau was a tiny ecclesiastical lordship on the Lake Constance island of the same name, its political authority derived entirely from the Benedictine abbey founded there in 724 AD. By the mid-eighteenth century the abbey's temporal power was effectively vestigial, making coinage issues like this one more an exercise in jurisdictional assertion than economic necessity. Thomas Franz von Schönau-Zell held the abbacy during a period when the Holy Roman Empire's smallest coin-issuing authorities were under sustained pressure from larger neighbors — Reichenau's coinage rights would not survive the century.