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20 Kreuzers - George Charles of Fechenbach Konventionskreuzer
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1795 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | GEORG • CAROL • D • G • EP • WIR • S • R • I • PR • FR • OR • DUX • |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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George Charles of Fechenbach became Prince-Bishop of Würzburg in 1795, the same year this coin was struck — and almost immediately found himself navigating the catastrophic pressures of the French Revolutionary Wars. French forces would occupy Würzburg in 1796, and the bishopric's independent coinage effectively ended shortly thereafter. This piece belongs to one of the last gasps of a centuries-old ecclesiastical minting tradition in Franconia.
The Konventionskreuzer standard, fixed by the Convention of 1753 between Austria and Bavaria, governed the silver content of coins across much of the Holy Roman Empire for its remaining decades.