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1 Thaler 'Schautaler' - Anselm Francis of Ingelheim
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1687 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Archbishop Anselm Franz von Ingelheim facing right, wearing ecclesiastical vestments with elaborately decorated cope and pectoral cross, his long curled hair falling to his shoulders in the Baroque fashion. The portrait is rendered in high relief with finely engraved detail, occupying the majority of the field. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the circumferential Latin legend reading ANSELMVS FRANCISCVS D G ARCHIEPS MOGVNT S R I ARCHICANC ET PRINCEPS ELECTOR surrounding the bust. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Anselm Franz von Ingelheim was elected Archbishop of Mainz in 1679, inheriting a see still rebuilding after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and the French occupation of the Rhineland. This piece is a Schautaler — a display thaler struck not for circulation but for presentation, gifting to dignitaries, or court ceremony. Such pieces were common among the ecclesiastical princes of the Holy Roman Empire, who used them as political currency of a different kind. The 1687 date places this squarely in the shadow of Louis XIV's ongoing aggression in the Rhine territories, with Mainz increasingly caught between French ambition and imperial obligation.