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1 Kreuzer - Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt
| Issuer | Bishopric of Breslau |
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| Year | 1680-1681 |
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| Diameter | 16 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | FRID. S. R. E. C. LAN - HAS. EP. WRAT. |
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Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt was appointed Prince-Bishop of Breslau in 1671 at the age of nineteen, a purely political appointment engineered by Emperor Leopold I to consolidate Habsburg influence over the Silesian church. He held the see until his death in 1682, and his coinage output was modest — this kreuzer falls within his final two years of issue. Breslau's ecclesiastical mint operated under tight imperial oversight throughout this period, with the bishopric's monetary privileges increasingly nominal rather than independent.