10 Kreuzers - Johann von Manderscheid-Blankenheim

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.