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MÜNSTER: Anton Viktor, Bishop, 1801-1803, AR 1/24 thaler, 1801, PCGS AU58

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MÜNSTER: Anton Viktor, Bishop, 1801-1803, AR 1/24 thaler, 1801, PCGS AU58
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MÜNSTER: Anton Viktor, Bishop, 1801-1803, AR 1/24 thaler, 1801, KM-210, C-40, mini master initials CF, sede vacante, a well struck argent near mint state example, PCGS graded AU58, ex Joe Sedillot Collection. Anton Victor was chosen in 1801 as Prince-Bishop of Münster and as Archbishop and Prince-Elector of Cologne. The Electorate's Rhenish territories had been occupied by the French in 1794 and had in 1800 become part of France. This state of affairs preventing Anton from taking his seat in Cologne Cathedral and leaving him in control only of the Duchy of Westphalia, as well as of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster. His reign was to prove a short one - in the reorganisation of the Holy Roman Empire as provided by its law of 1803 enacting the so-called Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, the archiepiscopal electorates of Cologne and Trier were abolished and Anton's remaining territories secularised, Münster being partitioned between the Prussians and various minor princes and Westphalia claimed by the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.