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Pfennig - Gallus von Florin
| Issuer | Abbey of Disentis |
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| Year | 1716-1724 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | A G D |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Abbey of Disentis, a Benedictine house in the Graubünden, held coinage rights as part of its broader jurisdictional autonomy within the Rhaetian territory — a privilege increasingly under pressure from secular cantonal authority through the early eighteenth century. Gallus von Florin served as abbot during a period when such small-denomination billon issues were more a statement of retained privilege than a practical monetary instrument.
At 0.17 g, attrition losses in circulation were effectively irreversible. Most surviving examples reached the present through hoards or ecclesiastical archives rather than active exchange.