1 Pfennig

The Cathedral Chapter of Münster exercised independent coinage rights as an ecclesiastical authority within the Holy Roman Empire — a privilege that survived into the 1790s largely through institutional inertia rather than any practical monetary necessity. By 1790, the Empire's fragmentation meant dozens of such minor ecclesiastical issuers were still producing local copper pfennigs for petty transactions, even as the political structures sustaining their authority were less than a decade from collapse. Secularization under Napoleonic reorganization would extinguish the Chapter's temporal powers entirely by 1803.