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1 Thaler - Sede Vacante
| Issuer | Bamberg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1693 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned facing effigy of Emperor Henry II (patron saint of Bamberg) in full pontifical vestments, wearing a mitre and holding an orb and sceptre, set beneath an elaborate Gothic baldachin with flanking pinnacles and candelabra in the field. A shield bearing the imperial arms rests before the figure. The design is rendered in high relief in a richly detailed late Baroque engraving style. The circular Latin legend surrounds the entire composition. |
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| Reverse description | The arms of the Bishopric of Bamberg, featuring a rampant lion behind a diagonal bar (bend sinister), occupying the central field. The date 1693 and the mint official's initials G.F.N. appear below the shield. A circular Latin legend surrounds the design, identifying the principality. The composition is characteristic of late 17th-century German ecclesiastical coinage produced during a sede vacante interregnum period. |
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Struck following the death of Bishop Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg in 1693, this Sede Vacante thaler was issued by the cathedral chapter during the interregnum period before a new bishop was elected. Such issues served the chapter's legal right to exercise episcopal authority — and, critically, its minting rights — during the vacancy. Bamberg's chapter was unusually assertive in exercising these privileges throughout the seventeenth century.
The vacancy in question lasted only briefly before Lothar Franz von Schönborn was elected, beginning one of the most politically consequential episcopates in the diocese's history.