2 Mariengroschen - William Anthony of Asseburg

The Bishopric of Paderborn was one of the more financially strained ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire by the mid-eighteenth century, and small billon issues like this one reflect the diocese's ongoing struggle to maintain a functioning petty coinage without access to significant silver reserves. William Anthony von Asseburg held the see only from 1763 until his death in 1782, making his issues a relatively narrow window in Paderborn's long minting history.

The Mariengroschen denomination was a Lower Saxon accounting unit deeply embedded in regional commerce — its name derived from the Virgin Mary's association with Goslar's mint centuries earlier.