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1 Thaler - Christoph Franz of Buseck Konventionstaler
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1800 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | DES·H·R·R·FÜRST. CHRISTOPH FRANZ BISCHOF ZU BAMBERG 1800 |
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Christoph Franz von Buseck became Prince-Bishop of Bamberg in 1795, inheriting a diocese already destabilized by the revolutionary upheaval across the Rhine. This thaler was struck just five years before Napoleon's Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 dissolved the ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire wholesale — Bamberg among them. Von Buseck would be the last Prince-Bishop; the see was secularized and absorbed into Bavaria before he died.
The Davenport reference 1941A distinguishes this from closely related varieties in the Buseck series. Survivors in any grade are scarce, given the brevity of the issuing authority's final years.