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5 Kreuzer - August Philip Charles of Limburg-Gehmen-Styrum
| Issuer | Bishopric of Speyer |
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| Year | 1772 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central lozenge-shaped cartouche bearing the fractional denomination and fineness inscription '240 EIN FEIN MARK', indicating that 240 such coins were struck from one mark of fine silver. The date 1772 appears within the cartouche below the fineness statement. The legend 'AD NORMAM CONVENTUS IUSTIRT' encircles the design in the outer border, referencing the monetary convention standards to which this issue conforms. Small decorative floral or foliate ornaments punctuate the legend at intervals, consistent with the refined engraving style of contemporary South German ecclesiastical mints. |
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The Bishopric of Speyer was an ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire whose secular coinage rights persisted well into the eighteenth century despite the diocese's diminished territorial authority. August Philip Charles of Limburg-Gehmen-Styrum served as Prince-Bishop from 1770 until the suppression of the see — his reign coinciding almost exactly with the final decades before the French Revolutionary annexation that would extinguish Speyer's minting activity altogether. Small silver issues like this 5 Kreuzer circulated alongside coins from dozens of neighboring ecclesiastical and secular authorities, an arrangement that made currency exchange a constant practical burden for anyone moving through the Rhineland.