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15 Kreuzers - Karl I Joseph Wischau
| Issuer | Bishopric of Olomouc |
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| Year | 1663-1664 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | EPISCOPO OLOMVCEN 1663 D REG A BOC |
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The Bishopric of Olomouc held the unusual distinction of being an ecclesiastical prince-bishopric with full rights to strike coin under the Holy Roman Empire. Karl I Joseph von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, appointed Bishop of Olomouc in 1664, inherited a diocese whose finances had been gutted by decades of Thirty Years' War devastation and subsequent Swedish occupation. The Wischau mint — active only intermittently — was pressed into service during the 1663–64 period partly in response to the monetary chaos generated by the widespread circulation of debased Kipper und Wipper coinage that had never fully been purged from Moravian commerce.