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1 Thaler - Francis Arnold of Wolff-Metternich
| Issuer | Bishopric of Münster |
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| Year | 1718 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | FRANC: ARNOLD: D: G: EP: MONAST: ET PAD: |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Francis Arnold of Wolff-Metternich ruled Münster from 1707 until his death in 1718, making this thaler a final-year issue struck in the last months of his episcopate. The Bishopric of Münster maintained its own mint rights as an independent ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire, a privilege increasingly under pressure from surrounding secular powers throughout the early eighteenth century.
Davenport's attribution under GT II places this squarely among the German territorial thalers of the period — a category where surviving populations are often small, episcopal issues having been melted at disproportionate rates following secularization decades later.