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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DEA, post: 7834889, member: 90140&quot;]Well, I dusted off the old <i>Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II</i>, and it offered some interesting tidbits for the period but it doesn&#039;t seem to fully support the theory that there was a new bishop in Osnabruck based on the possible date of 1691.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>First, interesting tidbit: &quot;By an odd proviso of the Peace of Westphalia, all future bishops of Osnabruek were to be alternately Catholic and Protestant.&quot;&nbsp; The treaty was signed in 1648.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, if 1691 is accurate, Ernst August I of Hannover was the bishop from 1662-98; then Karl Josef of Lorraine was bishop from 1698-1715.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, putting those two facts together, maybe the new bishop, Karl, counter marked them? I would really like to know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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