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6 Pfenning - Clemens August of Bayern
| Issuer | Bishopric of Paderborn |
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| Year | 1743-1748 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | C(L). A(V)(U)(G). D. G. A. E. C. S. R. I. P. E. S. M. O. T. E. P. H. M. O. B. D. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Clemens August of Bavaria held five simultaneous ecclesiastical offices at his peak — Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Paderborn, Bishop of Münster, Bishop of Osnabrück, and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order — making him one of the most politically overextended churchmen of the eighteenth century. The Paderborn copper issues of this period reflect the financial strain of maintaining such an apparatus: small-denomination pfennig coinage was an administrative necessity, not a prestige project.
Clemens August died in 1761, and this denomination was not continued under his successor.