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1 Körtling - Reiner of Buchholz
| Issuer | Corvey, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1558-1562 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a facing half-length figure of St. Vitus, patron saint of Corvey, depicted in frontal presentation with hands raised or bearing attributes in the manner of a martyr saint, rendered in the crude die-cut style typical of small hammered billon issues. The surrounding Latin legend reads SANCT. VITVS. MARTIER., identifying the saint, with the date of issue incorporated at the end of the legend. The overall style reflects the provincial workshop production of the mid-sixteenth century Lower Saxony ecclesiastical mints. |
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| Reverse lettering | SAN(C)(T). VI(T)(V)(S). MA(R)(T)(I)(E)(R). |
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Reiner of Buchholz served as Abbot of Corvey during a period when the abbey's temporal authority was under sustained pressure from the surrounding County of Höxter and encroaching Protestant reformers. Small billon issues like this Körtling were a deliberate assertion of minting rights — rights the abbey had held since Carolingian grants but which were increasingly contested by secular neighbors throughout the sixteenth century.
The Ilisch/Schwede reference places this among the D/e die combination, a pairing documented across a narrow window of the abbacy.