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Thaler - Beda Angehrn
| Issuer | Abbey of Saint Gall |
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| Year | 1780 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central oval shield bearing the arms of the Abbey of Saint Gall, displayed within an ornate chain-link cartouche and surmounted by a princely crown flanked by a mitre to the left and a crozier to the right, all supported by draped mantling. A small medallion pendant appears at the base of the shield. The Latin legend reading BEDA·D·G· S·R·I·P is divided along the left and right periphery, denoting Abbot Beda Angehrn's title as Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Beda Angehrn served as Prince-Abbot of Saint Gall from 1767 until the abbey's forced dissolution in 1805, one of the last ecclesiastical rulers to exercise full temporal authority over the surrounding territory. This thaler was struck just over two decades before Joseph II's sweeping suppression of monastic institutions across Habsburg-adjacent lands destabilized the region and ultimately ended Saint Gall's independence as a sovereign entity. The abbey had minted coins intermittently since the medieval period, but issues of this period carry particular weight as products of a polity already living on borrowed time.