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10 Kreuzers - Johann von Manderscheid-Blankenheim
| Issuer | Bishopric of Strasbourg |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Value | 10 Kreuzers (1/8) |
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| Obverse description | Central four-fold quartered coat of arms with a small central escutcheon, the whole surmounted by a mitre, dividing the date 15-75 in the upper field. The quartered shield displays the heraldic arms associated with Bishop Johann von Manderscheid-Blankenheim, incorporating lions and other charges in each quarter. A Latin titulary legend of the bishop runs continuously around the periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Johann von Manderscheid-Blankenheim held the Strasbourg episcopate from 1569 until his death in 1592, a tenure marked by the intensifying pressures of the Counter-Reformation in the Upper Rhine. The Bishopric's coinage of this period is notably sparse, making the 1575 10 Kreuzer one of relatively few silver issues attributable to his reign. MB#135 / E&L#194 represents a well-documented type, though surviving examples in problem-free condition are genuinely uncommon — the region's prolonged confessional conflicts did little to encourage careful preservation of ecclesiastical silver.