2 Liards - Jean-Théodore of Bavaria

Jean-Théodore de Bavière held the Prince-Bishopric of Liège from 1744 until his death in 1763, simultaneously accumulating the sees of Regensburg, Freising, and — briefly — the coadjutorship of Cologne, making him one of the most pluralistic ecclesiastical office-holders in the late Holy Roman Empire. This concentration of benefices was less a spiritual arrangement than a political one, engineered by the Wittelsbach dynasty to maintain influence across Imperial church territories during the War of Austrian Succession's aftermath. The 2 liard copper issues of 1750–1752 correspond to a period of monetary reorganization in the principality following wartime disruption to local trade.