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.
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.