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3 Kreuzers - William III of Hohenstein
| Issuer | Bishopric of Strasbourg (French States) |
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| Year | 1512 |
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| Value | 3 Kreuzer (1⁄30) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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William III of Hohenstein held the bishopric of Strasbourg from 1506 until his death in 1541, presiding over a diocese caught between Habsburg political pressure and the earliest stirrings of Lutheran reform filtering in from the Rhine Valley. The 3 Kreuzer was a practical small-denomination issue for a region where Imperial and ecclesiastical coinages circulated side by side, often at contested rates of exchange.
Billon issues from Strasbourg in this period are notoriously uneven in silver content, reflecting the broader debasement creeping through the Upper Rhine mints in the early sixteenth century.