Corvey's copper pfennig issues of the early eighteenth century were struck under the authority of the abbey's secular lordship over surrounding territories — a jurisdictional relic that was already anachronistic by 1715 and would survive only a few more decades before Prussian administrative pressure eroded what remained of ecclesiastical minting rights in Westphalia. Maximilian of Horrich served as prince-abbot during a period when Corvey's temporal authority was more asserted on coin than enforced on the ground.
Corvey's copper pfennig issues of the early eighteenth century were struck under the authority of the abbey's secular lordship over surrounding territories — a jurisdictional relic that was already anachronistic by 1715 and would survive only a few more decades before Prussian administrative pressure eroded what remained of ecclesiastical minting rights in Westphalia. Maximilian of Horrich served as prince-abbot during a period when Corvey's temporal authority was more asserted on coin than enforced on the ground.