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1 Pfennig - Leopold William of Austria
| Issuer | Murbach and Lüders, Imperial abbeys of |
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| Year | 1626-1662 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a composite shield bearing the quartered arms of Austria, Murbach, and Lüders. The heraldic device is centrally placed in the field, with the beaded border forming a defined inner circle. The design is consistent with early seventeenth-century hammered coinage of the Alsatian imperial abbeys. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leopold William of Austria held the abbacies of Murbach and Lüders in commendam from 1626 — meaning he drew revenues from both houses without ever residing there or taking holy orders. He accumulated an extraordinary collection of such appointments simultaneously, including the bishoprics of Passau, Strasbourg, Halberstadt, Olmütz, and Breslau. The Thirty Years' War raged across nearly the entire span of this issue's production, and the abbeys' mint activity during these decades reflects the fractured monetary environment of the Upper Rhine.
At one Pfennig in silver, this is among the smallest denominations the imperial abbeys produced under his name.