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1 Goldgulden - George Charles of Fechenbach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1795 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The city arms of Würzburg, displaying a rake or harrow device upon the shield, with the initials S.P.Q.W. (Senatus Populusque Wirzeburgensis) flanking the shield in the field. A tall palm tree rises above the shield, filling the upper portion of the design. The denomination legend EIN GOLD GULDEN arcs around the upper periphery, and the date 1795 appears in the exergue below the shield. |
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George Charles of Fechenbach became Prince-Bishop of Würzburg in 1795, the same year this gulden was struck — an inauspicious moment to assume control of a secularized ecclesiastical territory with French Revolutionary armies pressing into the Rhineland. The Bishopric would survive him by only seven years; Napoleon's Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 dissolved it entirely, absorbing Würzburg into the broader reorganization of German ecclesiastical holdings.
This makes the 1795 issue effectively an opening-year piece of a reign that had no closing-year coinage worth speaking of in gold.