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5 Kreuzer - Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1765 |
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| Weight | 2.16 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device comprising the crowned oval arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz, displaying the six-spoked wheel of Mainz alongside the rampant lion of the Breidbach-Bürresheim family, set on a decorative cartouche base bearing the date 65 (last two digits of 1765). A continuous Latin legend encircles the entire design, reading the abbreviated titles of Archbishop Emmerich Joseph, separated by stops. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach-Bürresheim was elected Archbishop-Elector of Mainz in 1763, inheriting one of the most financially strained ecclesiastical territories in the Holy Roman Empire — his predecessor Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein had left the archbishopric burdened with war debts accumulated during the Seven Years' War, which had ended just that same year. This 5 Kreuzer was struck two years into his reign as part of a broader recoinage effort to stabilize the fractional silver supply disrupted by wartime hoarding and currency debasement across the Rhineland.
Breidbach-Bürresheim was notably reform-minded, later a patron of the Enlightenment and an associate of figures in the German Catholic reform movement. He died in 1774, leaving no successor coinage in this denomination.