1 Pfennig - Henry VIII of Bibra

Henry VIII of Bibra governed the Bishopric of Fulda from 1759 until his death in 1788, a tenure that coincided with the broader German ecclesiastical principalities' struggle to maintain fiscal autonomy against encroaching Josephinian reforms from Vienna. Fulda's copper pfennig coinage of this period was struck primarily to meet local market needs — the principality's economy ran heavily on small transactions tied to its Benedictine monastery's extensive landholdings.

Eichelmann's specialized corpus on Fulda coinage remains the definitive reference for die attribution on these minor copper issues.