5 Kreuzer - August Philip Charles of Limburg-Gehmen-Styrum

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.