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60 Kreuzer - Lothair Frederick of Metternich
| Issuer | Bishopric of Speyer |
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| Year | 1672 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | *LOTHAR:FRIDERIC:D:G:EPIS:SPIR:COAD:MO |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lothair Frederick of Metternich-Burscheid served as Prince-Bishop of Speyer from 1652 until his death in 1675, presiding over the diocese during the long reconstruction following the Thirty Years' War. The 60 Kreuzer denomination — a large silver piece roughly equivalent to a gulden — was issued by numerous German ecclesiastical princes in this period as a practical response to chronic small-denomination shortages across the fragmented Empire. Speyer itself had been badly damaged during the war and would suffer again under French occupation in the 1680s, making issues from this brief window of relative stability genuinely scarce in any condition.