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1 Gröschel - Francis Louis
| Issuer | Bishopric of Breslau |
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| Year | 1699-1701 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 137 |
| Obverse description | Central field displays the quartered episcopal arms of Francis Louis of Neuburg, Prince-Bishop of Breslau, surmounted by a mitre above the shield. The coat of arms incorporates multiple heraldic quarterings including the Neuburg lion and additional dynastic devices. A circular Latin legend surrounds the arms, reading the bishop's full abbreviated title. The design is rendered in the typical late 17th-century German ecclesiastical hammered style with bold relief. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Francis Louis of Neuburg held Breslau as a prince-bishop while simultaneously serving as Bishop of Worms and later Elector of Trier — an accumulation of ecclesiastical offices that kept him perpetually absent from Silesia. The Gröschel was the workhorse small change of Silesian commerce, and this issue belongs to a period when the Habsburg reconsolidation of the region following the Thirty Years' War was still reshaping local monetary arrangements. Breslau retained its episcopal mint rights into the early eighteenth century despite sustained imperial pressure to centralize coinage authority in Vienna.