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4 Pfennig - Frederick of York
| Issuer | Osnabrück, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1766 |
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| Value | 4 Pfennigs (4 Pfennige) (1⁄63) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick, Duke of York and Albany — the second son of George III — was appointed Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück in 1764 at the age of one, under the terms of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which had established an alternating Protestant-Catholic succession to the see. He never set foot in the bishopric. The coins struck in his name were administered entirely by a regency government, making this issue a peculiar artifact of absentee ecclesiastical rule managed from London.