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1⁄24 Thaler - Francis Conrad of Rodt Conventionstaler
| Issuer | Bishopric of Constance |
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| Year | 1772 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | F.C.S.R.E.P.C. DE RODTE · CONSTAN · S · R · I · P · |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Francis Conrad of Rodt governed the Bishopric of Constance during its final restless decades before the see's suppression in 1803 under Napoleonic reorganization of the German church. The small billon fraction was a practical instrument for local commerce in a territory perpetually squeezed between Habsburg authority and the Swiss Confederation, neither fully absorbed by either power.
Berstett ZB#417 places this piece within a well-documented Swabian ecclesiastical series, though surviving examples in problem-free condition are genuinely scarce — billon fractions of minor German states circulated hard and were seldom saved.