1 Ducat - Joseph von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein

Features

Issuer	Bishopric of Breslau (Silesia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1796
Value	1 Ducat (2)
Currency	Thaler
Composition	Gold
Weight	3.43 g
Diameter	20 mm
Shape	Round
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 554454
References	FuS# 2787 Friedrich Friedensburg, Hans Seger; 1901. Schlesiens Münzen und Medaillen der neueren Zeit = Silesian Coins and Medals of Modern Times. Vereins für das Museum Schlesischer Altertümer, Wrocław, Poland. , Fr# 531 Coin & Currency Institute (publisher). Gold Coins of the World. Coin & Currency Institute (8 volumes). , Kop# 7004 (R4) Edmund Kopicki; 1995. Ilustrowany skorowidz pieniedzy polskich i z Polska związanych. Polskie Towarzystwo Numizmatyczne (Polish Numismatic Society), Warsaw, Poland (4 volumes). , KM# 232 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

Obverse

Cloaked bust right.

Script: Latin

Lettering: IOSEPH DG PRIN AB HOHENLOHE WALD BART

Unabridged legend: Iosephus Dei Gratia Princeps Ab Hohenlohe Wald Bartenstein

Translation: Joseph, by the grace of God, Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein...

Reverse

Crowned and mantled shield with composite coat of arms. Crozier, crown a mitre above shield. Legend around (start 12h) with date at the end.

Script: Latin

Lettering: EPISCOP WRATISL PRINC NISS ET DUX GROTTKOW 1796

Unabridged legend: Episcopus Wratislaviensis Princeps Nissensis Et Dux Grotkoviensis

Translation: ... Bishop and Prince of Breslau, Duke of Grotkow.

Mint

Nysa, Poland

Comments

KM# is attributed to German states.

During the reign of Bishop Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg (1683–1732), the production of official coins resumed, but in 1701 the minting process was concentrated, prohibiting all feudal lords from minting smaller monetary units. Only the right to mint representative coins was left, and the bishop took advantage of it. As a result of the Silesian Wars and the annexation of most of Silesia by Prussia, episcopal power was significantly limited. After secularization in 1810, the bishops lost all their landed estates and all secular prerogatives, including the right to mint coins in the lost area of the Duchy of Prussia. Bishop Joseph von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein (1795–1817) was the last who, as Prince of Neisse, issued his own coins. In the following centuries, issues of bishop's coins were limited only to medallion issues.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1796

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