10 Kreuzers - Charles Alexander of Lothringen Death

Charles Alexander of Lorraine served as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1761 until his death in July 1780, a tenure during which the Order's territorial and political position in the Holy Roman Empire was already under serious pressure from Josephinian reform policies. Death memorial coinages of this kind — struck to mark the passing of a Grand Master rather than a coronation or victory — were an established Teutonic practice, and this issue follows that tradition without being a common type.

Prokisch's cataloguing of Teutonic Order coinage remains the authoritative reference for this series, and his number 254 places this piece firmly within the final phase of the Order's pre-secularization minting activity. Napoleon's dissolution of the Order's German holdings was still two decades away.