1 Pfennig - Hermann I of Holte

Corvey, originally founded as a Carolingian imperial abbey on the Weser in 823, had by the thirteenth century accumulated substantial territorial rights that included the privilege of independent coinage. Hermann I of Holte held the abbacy across three decades, a tenure long enough to produce several die varieties under his name. The Weing and Kennepohl references each treat this bracteate-era pfennig as a distinct issue, reflecting the localized monetary fragmentation typical of the Westphalian ecclesiastical mints during this period of imperial weakness under the prolonged conflicts between Hohenstaufen and papal factions.