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10 Kreuzers - Max Francis Death of the Grandmaster
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1801 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1525-1809) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and elaborately quartered coat of arms of Maximilian Francis as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, flanked on either side by a pair of ceremonial tasselled mantling. The shield displays the arms of the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Electorate, and the Teutonic Order, surmounted by a crown with a small cross at its apex. The circular legend surrounding the design reads MAX.FRANCS.R.I.PR&EL.ARCH.EP.COI.M.MAG.ORD.TEUT.EP.MON.A.D.A, giving his full titles as Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Elector, Archbishop of Cologne, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, and Bishop of Münster. The coin exhibits fine milled borders and is struck in a neat, detailed style typical of late eighteenth-century German ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAX.FRANCS.R.I.PR&EL.ARCH.EP.COI.M.MAG.ORD.TEUT.EP.MON.A.D.A |
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Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, younger brother of Emperor Leopold II and last active Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, died in July 1801 — just four years before Napoleon dissolved the Order entirely in the territories of the Confederation of the Rhine. This commemorative issue was struck in the final months of the Order's effective existence as a territorial power, when its holdings in the Mergentheim region were already under acute political pressure from the reorganization of German states following the Treaty of Lunéville.
The Order would limp on ceremonially until 1809.