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1⁄24 Thaler - Clemens August
| Issuer | Münster, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1755 |
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| Value | 1⁄24 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Elaborately interlaced crowned cypher of Bishop Clemens August, formed by the conjoined initials CA, surmounted by an ornate electoral prince's crown. The monogram is rendered in a baroque decorative style with foliate scrollwork filling the field. The initials CA are intertwined symmetrically at the centre, with the mintmaster's initials IK appearing at the base of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | CA I K |
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Clemens August of Bavaria held five simultaneous ecclesiastical appointments at his peak — Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Münster, Bishop of Paderborn, Bishop of Hildesheim, and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order — making him one of the most politically concentrated figures in the 18th-century Holy Roman Empire. His coinage across these territories is consequently varied and often cross-referenced by collectors tracking his monetary output as a whole rather than by individual issuing authority.
The billon composition reflects chronic silver shortages in smaller ecclesiastical mints by mid-century, where maintaining a pure silver fractional issue had become economically untenable.