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1 Schilling - George Charles of Fechenbach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1795-1796 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the quartered coat of arms of the Bishopric of Würzburg, surmounted by an episcopal crown. The shield incorporates the traditional Franconian rake and the Fechenbach family arms. The escutcheon is flanked by decorative foliate mantling. A Latin legend encircles the design along the periphery, reading GEOG.CAROL.DG, abbreviating the name and title of Bishop Georg Karl von Fechenbach. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Georg Karl von Fechenbach zu Laudenbach became Prince-Bishop of Würzburg in 1795, just as the French Revolutionary Wars were dismantling the ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire one by one. His reign lasted barely seven years before Napoleon's reorganization of German territories extinguished the Bishopric of Würzburg as a sovereign entity in 1802. This schilling belongs to the first year of that truncated tenure.