Schaffhausen, Abtei Allerheiligen (de), Schaffhausen, All Saints abbey (en), Schaffhouse, abbaye de Tous-les-Saints (fr), Sciaffusa, abbazia di Allerheiligen (it)
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The All Saints abbey of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, as issuing authority (ca. 1080-1280). It seems clear that de iure the right
to mint coins was held by the monastery of All Saints from 1080 onwards throughout the Middle Ages. Even though the sovereign
rights remained in the hands of the monastery, it leased them as hereditary fiefs to various families as early as the 13th
century. The first municipal coins appear around 1280, the management of the mint must by then have gone far beyond a lease
by a private individual. Not only did the abbey itself no longer mint its own coins after 1280, but – in contrast to the city
of Schaffhausen - it also no longer appears in documents as a minting authority.
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