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1 Pfennig - Constantine of Buttlar
| Issuer | Abbey of Fulda |
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| Year | 1723-1726 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Four-line denomination inscription in the field, reading '1 PFEN / NING' followed by the date '1724' and a small ornamental stop, the whole enclosed within a laurel wreath tied at the base. The wreath branches extend upward symmetrically to frame the central text, with the milled edge forming a decorative border around the entire reverse. |
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Constantine of Buttlar served as Prince-Abbot of Fulda from 1714 until his death in 1726, presiding over one of the wealthiest and most politically influential ecclesiastical territories in the Holy Roman Empire. Fulda held the rank of an imperial abbey — its abbot answerable directly to the Emperor — giving it the right to strike coinage in its own name, a privilege it exercised across centuries of abbatial succession.
The billon content of this pfennig reflects the chronic small-denomination coinage problem of the period: pure copper issues were politically undesirable for a prestige house, yet silver was economically irrational at this denomination.