30 Kreutzers - Beda Angehrn

Beda Angehrn served as Prince-Abbot of Saint Gall from 1767 until the abbey's forcible dissolution in 1805, but his coinage rights were already under sustained political pressure well before that end came. The 30 Kreuzer pieces struck under his authority belong to the final generation of Swiss ecclesiastical coinage — the Helvetic Republic, declared in 1798, effectively ended the abbey's temporal jurisdiction and with it any practical monetary function these coins retained.

Saint Gall's minting activity in this period was limited, and the fifteen-year span of this issue likely reflects interrupted rather than continuous production.