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1 Thaler - Anna II of Limburg
| Issuer | Abbey of Herford |
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| Year | 1552 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1552 |
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Anna II von Limburg served as abbess of Herford from 1520 until her death in 1565, presiding over one of the oldest and most politically independent imperial abbeys in Westphalia — a house with roots in the Carolingian period that held the status of a free imperial abbey (Reichsstift), answering directly to the emperor. The right to strike coinage was among the privileges that accompanied that status, though Herford exercised it rarely and inconsistently.
The 1552 date places this thaler in the same year as the Treaty of Passau, which temporarily resolved the conflict between Charles V and the Protestant princes. Herford had by this point adopted Lutheranism, a tension the abbey navigated carefully given its imperial obligations.