Kreutzer - Beda Angehrn

Beda Angehrn served as Prince-Abbot of Saint Gall from 1767 until the abbey's forced dissolution by the Helvetic Republic in 1805, but the practical end of his minting authority came well before that. The Abbey of Saint Gall held the imperial privilege of coinage as a sovereign ecclesiastical territory of the Holy Roman Empire — a right exercised intermittently for centuries and increasingly difficult to defend as Swiss cantonal politics eroded abbatial autonomy through the late eighteenth century.

HMZ 1#2-879a is the only recorded variety for this type, suggesting limited die production across the full reign span.