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MAINZ: Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, 1774-1802, AR 3 kreuzer, 1796-S, PCGS MS64

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MAINZ: Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, 1774-1802, AR 3 kreuzer, 1796-S, PCGS MS64
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MAINZ: Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, 1774-1802, AR 3 kreuzer, 1796-S, KM-413, mint master's initials IA, a scarce type, a wonderful lustrous mint state example, PCGS graded MS64, ex Joe Sedillot Collection. Finest graded 'top pop' by PCGS!Erthal's politics were dominated by the Enlightenment. The universities of Mainz and Erfurt were reformed according to new ideas, and a hymnal in German language was published. He became one of the most notable supporters of free-thought in theology and of Febronianism in the government of the Church. Georg Forster, a Protestant, became his librarian and William Heinse, another Protestant, and author of the lascivious romance "Ardinghello", was his official reader. Erthal suppressed the Carthusian monastery and two nunneries at Mainz and used their revenues to meet the expenses of the university, in which he appointed numerous Protestants and free-thinkers as professors. Notorious unbelievers such as Felix Anthony Blau and others were invited to the university in 1784 to supplant the Jesuits in the faculty of theology.