1 Böhmisch - Constantine of Buttlar

Constantine of Buttlar ruled Fulda as prince-abbot from 1714 until his death in 1726, a tenure marked by ambitious Baroque building projects that strained the abbey's finances considerably. The tiny böhmisch — essentially a kreuzer fraction circulating across the fractured currency landscape of the Holy Roman Empire — was one of several small silver denominations Fulda struck to meet local transactional demand. The abbey held the rank of an imperial prince-abbacy, giving it the right to strike coin independently, a privilege jealously maintained even as the denomination's silver content made it barely worth the minting cost.