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1 Crown - Christopher of Manderscheid
| Issuer | Stavelot-Malmedy, Imperial abbey of |
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| Year | 1564-1576 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MAXI ⬩ II ⬩ RO ⬩ IMP ⬩ P ⬩ F ⬩ DECR (Translation: Maximilian II, Roman Emperor by Decree) |
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Christopher of Manderscheid served as Prince-Abbot of Stavelot-Malmedy during a period when the abbey's status as an imperial immediacy — answerable directly to the Holy Roman Emperor rather than any territorial prince — gave it the right to issue coinage in its own name. That right was exercised jealously; the abbey's mint output was modest by design, intended more to assert sovereignty than to supply a local economy. The Delmonte references distinguish two die variants of this type, suggesting at least two separate production runs across the twelve-year abbacy.