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1 Goldgulden - Adam Frederick of Seinsheim
| Issuer | Würzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1773-1778 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Prince-Bishop Adam Frederick of Seinsheim facing right, wearing a elaborate wig with curled locks and ecclesiastical robes adorned with a quartered heraldic shield at the breast. The bust is rendered in high relief with fine detail. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, reading AD • FRI • D • G • EP • BAM • ET WIR • S • R • I • P • F • O • DUX •, abbreviating his full episcopal and princely titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | AD • FRI • D • G • EP • BAM • ET WIR • S • R • I • P • F • O • DUX • |
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Adam Frederick of Seinsheim held the dual roles of Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg simultaneously from 1757 until his death in 1779, one of the last ecclesiastical rulers to exercise that degree of consolidated temporal power in Franconia before secularization dismantled the Prince-Bishoprics entirely. His Goldgulden issues of the 1770s were struck against the backdrop of significant building patronage — he commissioned Balthasar Neumann's completed Residenz interiors — but the coins themselves were functional currency within a shrinking ecclesiastical economy increasingly squeezed by Josephine reforms from Vienna.