Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/2 Thaler - Clemens Wenzel of Sachsen 1/2 Konventionstaler
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
|---|---|
| Year | 1773 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1/2 Thaler |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | CLEM • WENC • D • G • A • EPISC • TREV • S • R • I • A • C • & EL • |
| Reverse description | Elaborate crowned and mantled heraldic achievement displaying the quartered arms of Clemens Wenzel as Archbishop of Trier, Bishop of Augsburg, and Prince-Elector, set within an ornate Baroque cartouche with foliate and scrollwork supporters. Below the shield, a Teutonic Order cross badge is depicted, with the fineness inscription XX • EIN • MARK in the lower exergue and the mintmaster initials S • C • beneath. The circular legend surrounds the entire design within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony — the last Elector-Archbishop of Trier — was a Wettin prince placed into ecclesiastical office largely through dynastic maneuvering, and his long tenure from 1768 to 1803 ended when Napoleon's campaigns dissolved the Rhenish ecclesiastical states entirely. This half-Konventionstaler was struck under the monetary convention established between Austria and Bavaria in 1753, a standardization that fixed the Thaler at 10 guilden per Cologne mark of silver and gradually brought the smaller German ecclesiastical mints into alignment. Trier's coinage under Clemens Wenceslaus is modestly scarce; the archbishopric's mint output was never prolific, and political disruption from the 1790s onward cut production sharply.