1 Pfennig - Maximilian Henry of Bavaria

Maximilian Henry of Bavaria held the See of Hildesheim as one of several ecclesiastical appointments he accumulated simultaneously — he was also Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and Bishop of Liège and Münster. This kind of pluralism was technically prohibited by Tridentine reform but remained common among German Catholic nobility throughout the seventeenth century, enforced largely by Wittelsbach dynastic ambition rather than pastoral concern. The Hildesheim mint struck small billon issues like this to meet local transactional demand in a diocese still recovering economically from the Thirty Years' War, which had ended only fifteen years prior.