Kreutzer - Beda Angehrn

Beda Angehrn served as Prince-Abbot of Saint Gall from 1767 until the abbey's dissolution in 1805, but this billon kreutzer was struck only through 1796 — the year Swiss political upheaval began accelerating toward the French invasion of 1798 and the effective end of the abbey's centuries-old temporal authority. Saint Gall had held the right to strike coin since the medieval period, one of the few ecclesiastical mints in the Swiss confederation to maintain that privilege into the late eighteenth century. The HMZ catalogues this piece under the broader Angehrn coinage series, distinguishing it from the earlier issues of his predecessor Cölestin Gugger.