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1 Thaler - Christoph Bernhard of Galen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Münster |
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| Year | 1661 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | PROTECTOR MEVS ET IN IPSO SPERAVI QVI SVBDIT POPVLVM MEVM SVB ME Psal 143 (Translation: Protector meus, et in ipso speravi; qui subdit populum meum sub me (My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me) Psalm 143) |
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| Reverse lettering | à Rmo CELsmo DD CHRISTOPH BERN EPo ET PRINCIPE MONAST Ao MDCLXI S PAVL PATRON MONAST WESTPH AD OBED REDVC TVM (Translation: Reverendissimo Ac Celsissimo Domino Domino Christoph Bernhard Episcopus Et Princeps Monasteriensis Anno 1661) |
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Christoph Bernhard von Galen — known to contemporaries as "Bombenbernd" for his enthusiastic use of artillery — spent much of his episcopate attempting to reclaim the city of Münster itself, which had maintained a largely independent civic government resistant to episcopal authority. The 1661 date falls squarely in the middle of his long campaign to subordinate the city, a struggle he ultimately won by 1661 after a formal siege. Coinage in his name was partly a political instrument asserting jurisdictional control over the bishopric's monetary prerogative.
Von Galen later allied with England and France against the Dutch Republic in the 1665–1667 war, bombarding Groningen without success.