1 Pfennig - Leopold William of Austria

Leopold William of Austria, the issuing authority here, was a career ecclesiastic who accumulated bishoprics and abbacies across the Holy Roman Empire with remarkable efficiency — at his peak simultaneously holding Strasbourg, Passau, Halberstadt, Olmütz, and Breslau alongside Murbach and Lüders. He never took holy orders beyond the diaconate. The joint abbey of Murbach-Lüders, an Alsatian imperial foundation dating to the eighth century, retained the right to strike coin well into the seventeenth century despite its diminished political weight.

Silver pfennigs from this abbatial mint are poorly documented in most major collections, and the 36-year span of the Divo attribution reflects how difficult precise dating within the Leopold William issues remains.