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10 Ducats - Marquard Sebastian Schenk of Stauffenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1687 |
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| Composition | Gold (.986) |
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| Reverse description | Crowned four-fold coat of arms set within an elaborate Baroque cartouche of scrolling acanthus foliage, supporters, and decorative flourishes; the quartered shield displays the heraldic arms of the Bishopric of Bamberg impaled with those of the Schenk von Stauffenberg family. The date 1687 appears above the crown flanking the top of the shield. The circular legend D G EPISCOPUS BAMBERGENSIS S R I PRINCEPS runs around the periphery within a beaded border, with a finely reeded outer rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg ruled the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg for less than four years, from 1683 until his death in 1693, and multiple-ducat presentation pieces from his reign are survivors of court ceremony rather than commerce. These heavy gold strikings were produced for diplomatic gifts and chapter distributions — they circulated among princes, not pockets. The Stauffenberg family itself was Swabian imperial nobility, and his elevation to the Bamberg see reflected the dense interplay of aristocratic patronage and ecclesiastical appointment that defined the Holy Roman Church in the late seventeenth century.
Fr#168 is among the rarest listings in Friedberg's gold coinage of the world for the Franconian bishoprics.