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1 Thaler - Hermann Werner of Metternich
| Issuer | Bishopric of Paderborn |
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| Year | 1693 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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| Mintage | 1693 |
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Hermann Werner von Metternich ruled Paderborn from 1683 until his death in 1704, a tenure defined largely by the aftermath of French devastation in the region during the Nine Years' War. Louis XIV's forces ravaged Westphalia through the early 1690s, and a thaler issued in 1693 from a small ecclesiastical mint was as much a statement of institutional survival as it was circulating currency. The Bishopric's finances were badly strained throughout this period.
Davenport 5712 is among the scarcer ecclesiastical thalers of the Westphalian series — the Paderborn mint operated intermittently, and output in any given year was limited by both resources and political instability.