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1 Thaler - Clemens Wenzel of Sachsen Konventionstaler
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1773 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Archbishop Clemens Wenzel of Saxony facing right, rendered in high relief with finely detailed period costume including lace cravat and decorative order cross at the chest. The elector wears an elaborate powdered wig with curled locks, characteristic of late 18th-century court portraiture. The engraver's initials 'SI' appear on the truncation below the bust. The encircling legend in Latin runs along the upper periphery of the coin, interrupted by the bust. |
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| Reverse description | The electoral arms of Trier displayed on an ornate shield surmounted by the elector's cap, with a sword and crozier crossed behind the shield as symbols of temporal and ecclesiastical authority. The Order cross of the Teutonic Order appears below the shield, dividing the date 1773 and the denomination value. The surrounding legend in Latin identifies the ecclesiastical and secular offices of the issuer, with the mark value and mint designation appearing in the lower field. |
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Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony — the last Elector-Archbishop of Trier — was an unlikely ecclesiastical ruler: a Wettin prince appointed to the see in 1768 largely through dynastic maneuvering, who spent his tenure more preoccupied with Enlightenment court culture than with diocesan affairs. His Trier coinage was struck under the Konventionstaler standard established by the Austro-Bavarian convention of 1753, which fixed the thaler at 1/10 of the Cologne mark — a monetary agreement that brought decades of relative stability to the fragmented coinage of the Holy Roman Empire's ecclesiastical states.