2 Kreuzer

Regensburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege jealously maintained through the eighteenth century even as smaller imperial entities lost theirs. By 1754 the city was host to the Immerwährender Reichstag — the perpetually sitting Imperial Diet — which had met there without recess since 1663, making Regensburg simultaneously one of the most politically significant and administratively sclerotic cities in the empire. Local coinage circulated alongside the flood of currency brought in by diplomats, functionaries, and their retinues from across the German lands.