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4 Pfennig - Arnold of Waldois
| Issuer | Corvey, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1648 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting the crowned letter 'A' (monogram of Abbot Arnold of Waldois) surmounted by a small cross, all enclosed within a rope or beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads D. G. ABBAS. CORVEI. (Dei Gratia Abbas Corveiae), separated by pellets, running clockwise around the periphery of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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1648 is the year the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War, and Corvey — a Benedictine imperial abbey on the Weser River in Westphalia — would have minted this piece against a backdrop of devastated regional economies and badly disrupted coinage supply. Arnold of Waldois served as prince-abbot at a moment when small copper pfennig issues were essential for local exchange precisely because silver had been hoarded, melted, or simply wasn't reaching circulation in sufficient quantity.
The Ilisch/Schwede reference places this firmly within the documented small coinage of the abbey's seventeenth-century output.