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1 Thaler - Philip Valentin
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1657 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse lettering | 1657 |
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| Mintage | 1657 |
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Philip Valentin Voit von Rieneck was elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg in 1653, but his tenure coincided with the grinding aftermath of the Thirty Years' War — a period when the Franconian ecclesiastical states were financially gutted, their mints sporadically active, and silver supplies deeply unreliable. That a full-weight thaler was produced at all in 1657 reflects a deliberate assertion of fiscal recovery rather than routine output. Bamberg's mint was never prolific, and thalers from this episcopate appear infrequently enough that any surviving example carries implicit rarity without needing the grade to justify it.