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2 Kreuzers - John Christopher of Westerstetten Eagle
| Issuer | Bishopric of Eichstätt (German States) |
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| Year | 1623 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Quartered shield of arms within a beaded inner circle, displaying the episcopal insignia of the Bishopric of Eichstätt: the upper-left and lower-right quarters bear a crozier, while the upper-right and lower-left quarters bear horizontal barry lines. The shield is set against a flat field with no additional ornament. The circumscribed Latin legend is divided by the date 16-23, running around the outer border between two beaded circles. |
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| Obverse lettering | • IOANNES • CHRISTOPH • E • EYS • 16 + 23 |
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John Christopher of Westerstetten became Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt in 1612 and presided over one of the most aggressive witch-hunting campaigns in the Holy Roman Empire — his tenure saw hundreds executed in the diocese. The 1623 date places this coin squarely within the opening phase of the Thirty Years' War, when coinage across the Empire was being debased catastrophically during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit currency crisis. Eichstätt's small silver issues of this period are notable precisely because the diocese resisted the worst of the debasement that gutted neighboring mints.