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1 Pfennig - John Christopher of Brambach
| Issuer | Abbey of Corvey |
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| Year | 1638 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | S. VITVS. |
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Corvey, once among the most powerful Benedictine abbeys in the Holy Roman Empire, was in catastrophic decline by 1638. The Thirty Years' War had ravaged Westphalia repeatedly, and Abbot John Christopher of Brambach was issuing copper pfennige under conditions of near-total economic collapse — the abbey's territories had been occupied, plundered, and forcibly billeted by multiple armies across two decades. Small copper issues like this one were emergency coinage in all but name, filling the void left by hoarded silver.