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2 Pfennig - Florenz of Welden
| Issuer | Abbey of Corvey |
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| Year | 1704 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central two-line denomination inscription reading II PFEN enclosed within a beaded or plain inner circle. A surrounding legend in the outer field reads FURSTL.CORVEY.LAND.MUNTZ, identifying this as a princely Corvey territorial coinage, with decorative stops separating the legend elements. |
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Corvey, once among the most powerful Benedictine abbeys in the Holy Roman Empire, had seen its temporal authority substantially eroded by the early eighteenth century. Florenz von Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht served as Prince-Abbot from 1696 to 1714, and small copper issues like this one reflect the abbey's continued exercise of minting rights — a privilege it retained even as its political reach had long since contracted. By 1794, French Revolutionary forces would effectively end Corvey's independence; secularization followed in 1803.