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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2683143, member: 39&quot;]Agreed about Amberg. Keep in mind that in those days there was no &quot;Germany&quot; in the sense of a country. When Prussia introduced mintmarks, Berlin did indeed get the A (in 1750), but that system did not apply outside the country. So Bavaria had a different system ...</p><p><br /></p><p>SRI refers to the Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium), and Maximilian III Joseph was indeed an elector (Kurfürst, i.e. one of those who elected the emperor). He was &quot;Pfalzgraf bei Rhein&quot;, and along with that came the office of being the &quot;Erztruchsess&quot;. I would have used maiordomus or maybe steward as the English translation; anyway, other electors had other &quot;arch-&quot; titles. The Elector of Saxony for example was Erzmarschall (Arch-Marshal), and so on. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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