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1 Heller - John III of Henneberg
| Issuer | Abbey of Fulda |
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| Year | 1539-1540 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Two heraldic shield emblems side by side in the central field: to the left, the Fuldaer Stiftskreuz (the abbatial cross of Fulda), and to the right, the Henneberg hen, the dynastic device of the Counts of Henneberg. The date is inscribed above the shields, divided across the field, with the abbreviated legend below. The design is executed in a plain, direct hammered style characteristic of small German ecclesiastical coinage of the early sixteenth century. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1540 • F • |
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Fulda's abbots held the right to strike coin by imperial grant stretching back to the early medieval period, but the early sixteenth century brought repeated jurisdictional friction between the abbey and the surrounding Henneberg counts over monetary authority in the region. Johann III von Henneberg served as Prince-Abbot from 1529 until his death in 1541, his tenure bracketed by the turbulence of Reformation politics that stripped several neighboring ecclesiastical mints of their striking privileges entirely. That Fulda retained its mint through this period owed more to imperial politics than to the abbey's own strength.