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⅙ Thaler - John Philip of Walderdorf
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier (German States) |
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| Year | 1757 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the elaborately interlaced crowned cypher of Archbishop Johann Philipp von Walderdorf, rendered in fine baroque calligraphic style with foliate flourishes beneath a princely crown. The monogram 'JP' (Johann Philipp) is entwined in decorative script and set upon a ornamental base bearing the fineness inscription '100'. The circular legend reading 'EINE MARK FEIN SILBER' (One Mark Fine Silver) runs along the periphery, attesting to the coin's silver standard. The coin is struck within a plain inner border with a beaded outer rim. The overall design is characteristic of mid-eighteenth-century German ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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John Philip of Walderdorf served as Archbishop-Elector of Trier from 1756 until his death in 1768, his tenure overlapping almost entirely with the Seven Years' War — a conflict that put extraordinary fiscal pressure on the Rhenish ecclesiastical territories caught between French and Prussian military operations. This 1757 issue, struck just one year into his reign, came as French forces were actively maneuvering through the Rhineland, making normal commerce and coinage circulation deeply disrupted.
The Archbishopric of Trier maintained its own mint rights as a Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, though by the mid-eighteenth century such fractional silver issues were increasingly a practical necessity rather than a political assertion.