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2 Pfennig - Thomas Franz
| Issuer | Lordship of Reichenau |
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| Year | 1740 |
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| Value | 2 Pfennigs (2 Pfennige) (1⁄180) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this small billon pfennig appears uniface or bears only minimal design elements, consistent with the low denomination coinage of the Reichenau lordship of this period. The plain fields and absence of prominent reverse imagery are characteristic of minor German territorial issues of the early eighteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Lordship of Reichenau — the small secular territory surrounding the famous Benedictine island abbey on Lake Constance — issued its own coinage well into the eighteenth century despite controlling little more than a few villages and lake fishing rights. Thomas Franz von Schönau-Zell served as the last imperial lord of Reichenau before the territory was absorbed by Austria in 1757, making his coinage issues among the final independent emissions from this jurisdiction. The billon content of pieces from this period is typically so debased as to approach copper in practice.