6 Pfenning - Clemens August of Bayern

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.