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2 Kreuzers - Marquard of Hattstein
| Issuer | Bishopric of Speyer |
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| Year | 1571-1575 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | * MAR . D . G . EPS . SPI . PPT9 . WI 7 4 |
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Marquard von Hattstein served as Prince-Bishop of Speyer from 1560 to 1581, his tenure bracketed by the confessional chaos of the Reformation's aftermath in the Rhineland-Palatinate. The Bishopric was under sustained pressure from Calvinist and Lutheran territorial neighbors, and small-denomination silver issues like this one kept ecclesiastical coinage circulating in a region where secular Protestant princes were actively undermining episcopal authority.
The Kreuzer series attributed to Ehrend I#5/76d is among the more precisely documented of Marquard's minor issues, though die wear and short production windows mean individual specimens vary considerably in sharpness.