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| German coins Regensburg City View Silver Thaler, Francis I Stephen, 1783. |
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| German coins City view of Regensburg Silver Thaler, struck 1783. |
Obverse: Laureated, draped and armored bust of Francis I Stephen right, wearing Order of the Golden Fleece.
Legend: FRANCISCUS D . G . ROM . IMP . SEMP . AVG .
Exergue: I.L. OEXLEIN. F.
Reverse: All-seeing-eye (triangle of the Holy Trinity) shiling above imperial eagle wiht open wings, guarding the city seen from north.
Comment: Gorgeus minimalistic depiction of the houses, city walls, cathedral, bridge, river and fortified gate. Crossed keys below.
Legend: TALI SUB CVSTODIA ("Under such/his protection!")
Exergue: I-C-B
Mint Place: Regensburg (as a Free Imperial City)
Mint Official: I.L.Oexlein & Johann Christoph Busch (I.C.B.)
Reference: Davenport 2617, KM-318 (see KM-346 for the 10 ducats coin, struck with the same dies). R!
Diameter: 43 mm
Weight: 29.1 gram of Silver
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Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I (Francis Stephen; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife effectively executed the real powers of those positions. With his wife, Maria Theresa, he was the founder of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. From 1728 until 1737 he was Duke of Lorraine. In 1737, Francis became managed by France under terms resulting from the War of the Polish Succession. Francis and House of Lorraine received the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the peace treaty that ended that war. After taking the throne of the Holy Roman Empire, the return of the ancestral duchy of Lorraine went nominally to his brother Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (who was however engaged in ruling the Austrian Netherlands), until succession under derivate house alliances resulted in Lorraine's annexation to France in 1766.
Regensburg (historically also Ratisbon, from Celtic Ratisbona, Latin: Castra Regina) (fr. Ratisbonne) is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at one of the northernmost points of the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. The large medieval centre of the city (including outside of the city's Stadt-Am-Hof) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.