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1 Thaler - Frederick William of Westfalen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Hildesheim |
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| Year | 1768 |
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| Weight | 27.9 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned and mantled coat of arms of the Bishopric of Hildesheim, flanked by elaborate supporters and surmounted by a bishop's mitre, with a crozier and sword crossed behind the shield. The quartered arms are displayed within an ornate heraldic composition in high Baroque style. The legend CONCORDIA STABILI arcs across the upper field, with the mintmaster's initials I.H. and V.U. placed at either side of the shield. The lower exergue carries the value inscription X STÜCK EINE FEINE MARCK and the date 1768. |
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Frederick William of Westfalen served as Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim from 1763 until his death in 1789, a tenure that coincided with mounting fiscal pressure on the ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. The Bishopric of Hildesheim had already spent much of the seventeenth century fighting off Prussian territorial encroachment, and the Seven Years' War — concluded just five years before this thaler was struck — had left many of the smaller German states scrambling to reassert economic presence through coinage.
Davenport's attribution places this squarely within the German Taler series, cross-referenced in Mehl's Hildesheim listings at #720.