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20 Kreuzers - Franz Xaver
| Issuer | Bishopric of Gurk |
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| Year | 1806 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Franz Xaver, Prince-Bishop of Gurk, depicted in ecclesiastical vestments including a mozzetta and pectoral cross, with a skullcap. The portrait is rendered in high relief in a naturalistic late Baroque style. The circumferential Latin legend reads FRANC XAV S R I PRINC ET EPISC GURC, identifying the issuer as a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Bishop of Gurk. The denomination C20 appears in the lower exergue beneath the bust. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRANC XAV S R I PRINC ET EPISC GURC (20) |
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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.