1 Thaler - Francis Arnold of Metternich

Francis Arnold of Metternich-Winneburg served as Prince-Bishop of Paderborn from 1704 until his death in 1718, a tenure defined largely by the slow recovery of the Westphalian ecclesiastical territories following the War of the Spanish Succession. These thalers, struck across a narrow three-year window, reflect the resumed minting activity of a diocese that had seen severely disrupted coin production during the preceding decade of regional conflict.

The Dav GT II#2510 attribution places this within the broader Grafenthal series documentation — the ".2" variant designation under KM#185 indicates a die differentiation from the earlier issue, likely a modification to the bishop's titulature on the coin.