John Philip of Lamberg served as Prince-Bishop of Passau from 1689 until his death in 1712, presiding over a diocese that straddled the Habsburg-Bavarian frontier and held unusual secular authority alongside its ecclesiastical role. Passau's right to strike coin was a hard-won imperial privilege, and the small silver issues of this period circulated primarily within the diocese's territorial pockets rather than across any broader regional economy.
The five-year window of this type corresponds with the later phase of the Nine Years' War, when silver flows through southern German ecclesiastical mints were irregular at best.
John Philip of Lamberg served as Prince-Bishop of Passau from 1689 until his death in 1712, presiding over a diocese that straddled the Habsburg-Bavarian frontier and held unusual secular authority alongside its ecclesiastical role. Passau's right to strike coin was a hard-won imperial privilege, and the small silver issues of this period circulated primarily within the diocese's territorial pockets rather than across any broader regional economy.
The five-year window of this type corresponds with the later phase of the Nine Years' War, when silver flows through southern German ecclesiastical mints were irregular at best.