1 Ducat - Urban of Trennbach

Urban of Trennbach held the see of Passau from 1561 to 1598, navigating the diocese through some of the most turbulent decades of the Reformation's penetration into Bavaria and Upper Austria. Passau's bishops exercised both ecclesiastical and secular authority as princes of the Holy Roman Empire, giving them the legal right to strike gold — a privilege not all imperial bishops exercised as consistently as Passau did.

Fr#2065 places this squarely within the Frühwald gold classification for Passau episcopal issues, a series notable for its relatively small surviving populations given the diocese's modest economic output compared to wealthier sees like Salzburg or Cologne.