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1 Thaler - John Gottfried II of Guttenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1684-1698 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Bishop Johann Gottfried II von Guttenberg facing right, wearing ecclesiastical vestments with an ornate lace surplice and pectoral cross. The hair falls in long curling locks over the shoulders in the style of the late 17th century. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy reading IOAN GODEFRID D G EP HERBIPOL FRANC OR DUX, identifying the bishop by name and title. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail on the robes and facial features. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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John Gottfried II von Guttenberg ruled the Bishopric of Würzburg from 1684 until his death in 1698, a tenure marked by the slow recovery of Franconia from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that had ended a generation earlier but left the region's economy and population diminished for decades. Würzburg's prince-bishops held both secular and ecclesiastical authority under the Holy Roman Empire, giving them the right to strike coinage as territorial rulers rather than merely as churchmen.
The DAV CCT 5990 reference places this squarely within Davenport's corpus of German church state thalers — a category notorious for relatively small production runs tied to the financial capacity of individual ecclesiastical mints.