1 Kreuzer - Clemens Wenzel of Sachsen

Clemens Wenzel of Saxony was appointed Prince-Bishop of Augsburg in 1768 at age twenty-two, backed heavily by his uncle Elector Friedrich August III — a appointment as much dynastic as ecclesiastical. His tenure coincided with Joseph II's aggressive Josephinist reforms curtailing Church temporal authority across the Empire, and the small copper issues of his see reflect a diocese quietly asserting its minting rights while those rights were increasingly under pressure from Vienna.

Mayer 85 is among the more routinely encountered of his copper types, suggesting steady if modest production across the three-year window.