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2 Pfennig - Francis Christopher of Hutten
| Issuer | Bishopric of Speyer |
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| Year | 1765 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a four-line inscription filling the central field, stating the denomination and coin type in German. The numeral II appears at the top flanked by six-pointed star ornaments, followed by PFENNIG on the second line, LANDMUNZ on the third line, and the date 1765 on the fourth line, with a small star ornament below. The lettering is bold and raised in a straightforward typographic style characteristic of small German ecclesiastical copper coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Bishopric of Speyer was one of the smaller ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire, its territory long contested between the bishop-princes and the city of Speyer itself, which had achieved imperial free city status and largely excluded episcopal authority from within its walls. Franz Christoph von Hutten zum Stolzenberg, who held the see from 1743 until his death in 1770, issued this copper piece as the Empire entered its final, increasingly bureaucratic decades.
Small-denomination copper issues from minor ecclesiastical mints of this period are frequently overlooked, but the Ehrend reference documents this type precisely — Ehrend I#7/33 distinguishes it from related pfennig issues of the same reign.