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1 Thaler - Sede Vacante
| Issuer | Cathedral Chapter of Münster |
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| Year | 1801 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central shield-shaped cartouche bearing an enthroned figure of a saint, nimbed and holding a sword, depicted in high relief within a beaded inner border. The denomination is indicated by the abbreviations I SP and TH flanking the shield at either side, with the conversion footnote AN CONV. FUSS. inscribed in the lower field. The circular outer legend reads CAPIT: CATH: MONASTERIENSE: SEDE VACANTE 1801, distributed around the full circumference and separated by a small six-pointed star. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued by the Cathedral Chapter of Münster during the interregnum following the death of Bishop Maximilian Franz of Austria in July 1801, this Sede Vacante thaler marks one of the final exercises of ecclesiastical minting authority in the region. Within two years, the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 would secularize the Prince-Bishopric of Münster entirely, transferring its territories to Prussia and extinguishing centuries of clerical temporal power. This coin is, in practical terms, among the last the chapter would ever strike.