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1/8 Thaler - August Philip Death of Francis Christoph
| Issuer | Bishopric of Speyer |
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| Year | 1770 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#66, Ehrend I#7/36 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Francis Christoph von Hutten served as Prince-Bishop of Speyer from 1743 until his death in 1770, and this memorial issue was ordered by his successor August Philip von Limburg-Stirum, who held the see only until 1797 when French Revolutionary forces dissolved the ecclesiastical principality entirely. Funeral or memorial coinages from small German ecclesiastical states in this period were struck in extremely limited runs, primarily for distribution among cathedral chapter members and court officials rather than general circulation.
The Bishopric of Speyer was among the smaller Rhenish ecclesiastical territories, and surviving pieces from its final decades are correspondingly scarce in any condition.