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20 Kreuzers - Franz Xaver
| Issuer | Bishopric of Gurk |
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| Year | 1806 |
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| Value | 20 Kreuzers (⅙) |
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| Reverse description | Elaborately engraved heraldic coat of arms of the Salm-Reifferscheid family, displayed on an ornate oval shield supported by mantling draped symmetrically to either side. The shield is surmounted by a princely crown with cross finial. The circumferential Latin legend, reading from the lower left, states EX PRINC ET ANTIQ COM DE SALM REIFFERSCHEID, referencing Franz Xaver's noble lineage as a prince and ancient count of Salm-Reifferscheid. The date 1806 appears in the upper portion of the legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | EX PRINC ET ANTIQ COM DE SALM REIFFERSCHEID 1806 |
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The Bishopric of Gurk was a prince-bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire, but by 1806 that empire had ceased to exist — dissolved by Napoleon's pressure in August of that year. Franz Xaver von Salm-Salm, appointed to Gurk in 1783, continued issuing coinage into this constitutional vacuum, making 1806 one of the final years any Gurk bishop struck money under even nominal imperial authority. The issue is rare in any grade; Gurk's output was never large, and the political disruption that followed secularization cut production sharply.