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3 Kreuzers - Romanus
| Issuer | Saint Blaise, Abbey |
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| Year | 1694 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#2 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saint Blaise (Sankt Blasien) in the Black Forest operated as an imperial abbey with the right to strike its own coinage — a privilege jealously guarded by ecclesiastical foundations that derived both revenue and political prestige from the mint. By the 1690s, small copper subsidiary coinage of this type was filling a chronic gap in everyday transactional currency across the southwestern German territories, where silver was being hoarded or melted against the backdrop of ongoing war expenditure from the Nine Years' War.
Abbot Romanus Vogler, who held the position from 1672 to 1695, authorized this issue near the end of his tenure.