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1 Batzen
| Issuer | Kempten, Free city of |
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| Year | 1520-1534 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kempten held the unusual distinction of existing as both a free imperial city and the seat of a powerful Benedictine imperial abbey simultaneously — two jurisdictions packed into one town, often at open conflict with each other. This batzen was struck during that friction, when the city council was asserting its autonomy against abbatial pressure and the broader instability of the early Reformation period was reshaping urban politics across the Reich.
The batzen denomination itself emerged in the late fifteenth century from Swiss and south German minting practice, gaining rapid adoption across the region precisely because it filled a practical gap between the small pfennig and the larger groschen.