2 Schillings - Francis-Arnold of Wolff-Metternich

Francis Arnold of Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht ruled the Bishopric of Münster from 1707 until his death in 1718, a tenure defined largely by the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession and the financial strain it imposed on Westphalian ecclesiastical territories. Small silver divisionary coinage of this period was minted erratically, and the 1711 date falls within a window of monetary reorganization across the Holy Roman Empire following the Reichsmünzfuß adjustments of the early eighteenth century. Schulze 182 is not among the more commonly traded varieties of this short episcopate.