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1 Thaler 'Conventionsthaler' - Frederick Charles Joseph of Erthal
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1794 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Frederick Charles Joseph of Erthal, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, facing three-quarters right, wearing clerical vestments with a decorative pectoral cross visible at the chest. The portrait is rendered in a finely detailed late Baroque style with naturalistic curled hair. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, and the engraver's signature I. LINDENSCHMIT appears in small letters below the bust truncation. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick Charles Joseph von Erthal was the last Archbishop-Elector of Mainz to actually govern from the city. French Revolutionary forces occupied Mainz in October 1792, were expelled, then returned decisively in late 1793 — by the time this thaler was struck in 1794, Erthal had fled to Aschaffenburg and the electoral capital was gone for good. He died in 1802 still in exile, and the Archbishopric was formally dissolved the following year under Napoleonic reorganization of the German ecclesiastical states.
A coin issued by a prince-bishop already dispossessed of his see.