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2 Pfennig - Maximilian Ulrich of Kaunitz
| Issuer | County of Rietberg |
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| Year | 1703 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ◇II◇ PFEN GR.RIDB.LAND.MUNTZ |
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Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz inherited Rietberg through his mother's line and ruled the county during a period when small copper pfennig issues served largely local transactional needs in the fragmented Westphalian territories. The Kaunitz family, better known as Bohemian imperial nobility, held Rietberg as something of a peripheral possession — a minor Westphalian county wedged between the ecclesiastical territories of Paderborn and Osnabrück.
Weingart's Westfälische Münzgeschichte catalogs this type as #921, placing it within a narrow series of copper issues from the county. Rietberg's independent coinage ceased not long after this date when the line's succession complications drew increasing Austrian interest.