4 Pfennig - Frederick of York

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.