2 Pfennig - Florenz of Welden

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.