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1 Thaler - Joseph of Stubenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Eichstätt |
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| Year | 1796 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays the elaborate crowned and mantled coat of arms of Bishop Joseph of Stubenberg, quartered and surmounted by a princely crown, with the mantle draped symmetrically to either side and supported by two figures acting as supporters. The full circumferential Latin and German legend, divided between upper and lower registers, records that the bishop melted down his court silver vessels to provide relief to the needy of his territory. The lower portion of the legend includes the monetary valuation X EINE FEINE MARCK, denoting ten thalers to the fine Cologne mark. A beaded inner border encloses the composition, and the reeded edge is visible at the coin's rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Joseph von Stubenberg was appointed Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt in 1790, inheriting a diocese already under severe pressure from Josephinist reforms that had been stripping ecclesiastical authority across the Habsburg sphere for over a decade. This 1796 thaler was struck just seven years before the Bishopric of Eichstätt ceased to exist entirely — secularized in 1802 under the provisions that would be formalized through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, which dissolved the majority of the ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. Stubenberg himself died in 1805, having outlived his own sovereignty by three years.