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1 Schilling - Lorenz of Bibra
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1496-1498 |
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| Value | 1 Schilling (1⁄28) |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of St. Kilian, patron saint of Würzburg, standing in high relief wearing episcopal vestments and a mitre. The saint holds a sword in his right hand and a crozier in his left, symbolizing martyrdom and ecclesiastical authority. The figure is rendered in the late Gothic style characteristic of late 15th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. The abbreviated legend in Gothic uncial script encircles the figure within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lorenz von Bibra's episcopate at Würzburg began in 1495 following a contested election, and his early coinage reflects an immediate assertion of the bishopric's mint rights at a moment when Franconian ecclesiastical territories were under sustained pressure from secular princes consolidating regional power. This schilling falls within the first three years of his forty-year rule — the longest episcopate Würzburg would see in the entire sixteenth century.