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1 Dreier - Anna II of Limburg
| Issuer | Herford, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1559 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1559 - (15)59 |
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Anna II von Limburg served as abbess of Herford from 1530 until her death in 1565, presiding over one of the oldest and wealthiest Imperial abbeys in Westphalia during a period of intense confessional pressure. By 1559, the Reformed faith had made deep inroads among the town's burghers, creating a persistent friction between the abbatial authority — which retained its Catholic character and imperial immediacy — and the increasingly Protestant civic population. This small silver issue sits squarely in that tension, minted under a ruler whose temporal authority was being contested even as the coin was struck.