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1⁄12 Thaler - Sede Vacante
| Issuer | Hildesheim, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1762-1763 |
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| Value | 1⁄12 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the crowned arms of the Hildesheim Cathedral Chapter, depicting the chapter's shield adorned with decorative cartouche work and flanked by foliate flourishes. A royal crown surmounts the escutcheon. The circular legend reads CAPITULUM CATHEDRALE HILDES SEDE VACANTE, indicating coinage issued during the episcopal vacancy, distributed around the full circumference of the coin. The milled border frames the design on the outer edge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sede Vacante coinage was struck by ecclesiastical mints during the interval between a bishop's death and his successor's confirmation — a legal window in which the cathedral chapter assumed temporal authority and exercised, briefly, the right of coinage. The Hildesheim vacancy of 1762–63 followed the death of Clemens August of Bavaria, who had simultaneously held five northern German sees. Sorting out that succession was a protracted affair, which is precisely why this issue spans two calendar years.