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1 Albus - Anselm Francis of Ingelheim
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1679-1692 |
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| Weight | 0.91 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | I ALBVS 1680 MF |
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Anselm Francis of Ingelheim served as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1679 until his death in 1695, governing during the catastrophic aftermath of Louis XIV's Rhine campaigns — the same conflicts that devastated much of the Rhineland and permanently altered the political balance of the Holy Roman Empire's western territories. The albus was a small regional silver denomination with deep roots in the Rhenish monetary system, by the late seventeenth century already a coin of diminishing practical weight in a world increasingly dominated by larger silver strikes.