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1 Groschen - Constantine of Buttlar
| Issuer | Abbey of Fulda |
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| Year | 1725-1726 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Half-length frontal effigy of Saint Boniface vested in full episcopal regalia, wearing a mitre and holding a crozier in his left hand and a book in his right, with a pectoral cross visible on his chest. The surrounding legend identifies the saint as S. BONIFAC. APOSTOL. GERMAN., all within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Constantine of Buttlar served as Prince-Abbot of Fulda from 1714 until his death in 1726, presiding over a house with both ecclesiastical authority and the status of an imperial abbey — meaning Fulda answered to the Emperor, not to any intervening territorial lord. The groschen issues of his final years were struck under that direct imperial immediacy, a privilege the abbey had held since the Carolingian period.
KM#59 covers the two-year window of 1725–1726, making the total production span short by any measure. Constantine died in December 1726, and coinage in his name ceased with him.