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1 Schilling - John III of Grumbach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1455-1466 |
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| Value | 1 Schilling (1⁄28) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a shield bearing the combined arms of the Bishopric of Würzburg, flanked by two smaller subsidiary shields arranged in a tripartite heraldic composition. The shields are surmounted by a bishop's mitre and surrounded by a circular Gothic legend in uncial script. The overall design is characteristic of late medieval German ecclesiastical coinage, struck on an irregularly shaped flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John III of Grumbach held the Würzburg see from 1455 until his death in 1466, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the Hohenzollern margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach over territorial jurisdiction in Franconia. The schilling issues of his episcopate are poorly documented in major auction records, suggesting limited survival — whether from modest original mintage or heavy attrition in circulation is difficult to establish from surviving evidence alone.
Ehwald remains the primary reference for Würzburg episcopal coinage of this period, and #5700 sits in a section where die linkage studies are incomplete.