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Pfennig - Gallus von Florin
| Issuer | Abbey of Disentis |
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| Year | 1566-1584 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄384) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a quartered shield, the dexter chief bearing a saltire cross and the sinister chief plain, the dexter base displaying three pellets arranged in a triangle and the sinister base bearing a crescent or similar charge. The shield is flanked and surrounded by multiple pellets disposed in the field, characteristic of the abbatial coinage of Disentis under Gallus von Florin. The overall style is consistent with late 16th-century Swiss ecclesiastical hammered billon coinage, with a broadly irregular flan and no surrounding legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Abbey of Disentis, founded in the early 8th century in the Surselva valley of Graubünden, held coining rights as an imperial abbey — a privilege that made issues like this pfennig legally distinct from the cantonal coinage developing around it. The reign of Gallus von Florin as abbot coincided with the abbey's careful navigation of confessional politics in a region where Reformed influence was advancing steadily through the Rhaetian communes.
Billon issues from small ecclesiastical mints of this period are frequently underrepresented in major collections, surviving more often in regional Swiss holdings than elsewhere. HMZ 1#2-504 is among the scarcer entries in that reference.