2 Pfennig - Maximilian Ulrich of Kaunitz

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.