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20 Kreutzers - Beda Angehrn
| Issuer | Abbey of Saint Gall |
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| Year | 1780-1783 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1767-1796) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval shield bearing the arms of the Abbey of Saint Gall, surmounted by a princely crown and supported on either side by elaborate mantling with decorative foliage. The shield displays the abbatial arms divided horizontally, with stars in the upper field. A small escutcheon appears at the base of the composition. The circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, separated from the central device by a beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Beda Angehrn served as Prince-Abbot of Saint Gall from 1767 until the abbey's dissolution in 1805, presiding over one of the wealthiest ecclesiastical territories in the Swiss Confederation during its final decades of independence. The abbey exercised minting rights as a sovereign imperial institution, a privilege it had held intermittently since the medieval period. These 20 Kreuzer pieces, struck across a narrow three-year window in the early 1780s, belong to the last sustained coinage the abbey would produce before revolutionary pressure from France and internal Swiss politics brought the entire institution to an end.