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10 Kreuzers - Anton Theodor of Colloredo-Waldsee
| Issuer | Olomouc, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1779 |
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| Value | 10 Kreuzers (0.10) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate quartered coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Olomouc impaled with the personal arms of Colloredo-Waldsee, surmounted by a cardinal's hat with pendant tassels on either side and a processional cross behind the shield. A mitre appears to the upper left and a royal crown to the upper right of the shield. The denomination numeral 10 appears within an oval cartouche at the base of the design. The surrounding legend reads S. R. I. PR. RE. CAP. BOH. & A COLLOREDO & WALD CO: 1779. Mint initials I.C. and F.A. appear in the lower field. |
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Anton Theodor von Wallis — he only adopted the Colloredo-Waldsee name upon inheriting his uncle's estates — governed the Bishopric of Olomouc from 1777 until its elevation to an archbishopric in 1777, a jurisdictional shift that complicated the authority under which his coinage was struck. Ecclesiastical minting rights in Moravia were already under pressure from Joseph II's centralizing reforms, and this 1779 issue falls squarely in the window when Vienna was actively curtailing the independent monetary prerogatives of imperial church territories.
The KM#480 type is among the final small silver issues of the Olomouc series before Habsburg administrative consolidation effectively ended episcopal coinage in the region.