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24 Kreuzer - Franz Joseph Sigismund von Roggenbach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1788 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Bishopric of Basel had been in slow institutional decline throughout the eighteenth century, its temporal authority increasingly challenged by both the canton and the Prince-Bishopric's own restless subjects in the Ajoie and Erguel districts. Franz Joseph Sigismund von Roggenbach, who held the see from 1782 until the Revolution swept the entire principality away in 1792, issued this kreuzer piece during a period when the Bishop still nominally controlled the Porrentruy mint — a control that would prove short-lived.
Within four years of this striking, French Revolutionary forces dissolved the ecclesiastical state entirely, incorporating its territory as the Département du Mont-Terrible in 1793.