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1693, Mainz (Archibishopric), Anselm Franz of Ingelheim. Silver 12 Kreuzer Coin.

Mint Year: 1693
Mint Place: Mainz
Reference: KM-208.
Denomination: 12 Kreuzer
State: Mainz (Archibishopric)
Condition: A large scrape in obverse, some toning, scratches, otherwise VF.
Diameter: 29mm
Material: Silver
Weight: 4.33gm

Obverse: Cross-topped and crowned shield with arms of Mainz and the Prince-Bishop.
Legend: ANSELM . FRAN . D : G . ARCHIEP . MOG . PR . EL .

Reverse: Value (*XII*) above denominatino (KREU/TZER), date (1693) and mint master's initials (C*B).
Legend: NACH . DEM . SCHLUS . DER . V . STAND *

Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement's original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", a description of the shoal behind the Mäuseturm, known as the Binger Loch. Bingen was the starting point for the Via Ausonia, a Roman military road that linked the town with Trier. Bingen is well known for, among other things, the story about the Mouse Tower, in which allegedly the Bishop of Mainz Hatto was eaten by mice.

The Archbishopric of Mainz (German: Erzbistum Mainz) or Electorate of Mainz (German: Kurfürstentum Mainz or Kurmainz) was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince-bishopric in the Holy Roman Empire between 780–82 and 1802. In the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae, the substitute of the Pope north of the Alps. Aside from Rome, the See of Mainz is the only other see referred to as a "Holy See", although this usage has become rather less common.

The archbishopric was a substantial ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. It included several non-contiguous blocks of territory: lands near Mainz on both the left and right banks of the Rhine; territory along the Main above Frankfurt (including the district of Aschaffenburg); the Eichsfeld region in Lower Saxony and Thuringia; and the territory around Erfurt in Thuringia. The archbishop was also, traditionally, one of the Imperial Prince-Electors, the Arch-chancellor of Germany, and presiding officer of the electoral college technically from 1251 and permanently from 1263 until 1803.

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Anselm Franz of Ingelheim (1634–1695) was Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1679 until his death in 1695. Anselm became prince-bishop of Mainz on 7 November 1679 and thus was an elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He crowned the empress Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, the wife of emperor Leopold I, in 1689 and one year later their son Joseph I, as the King of Hungary. The sixteen-year reign of Anselm Franz was clouded by the constant effort around peace and neutrality and the devastation of the War of the Grand Alliance, which caused him to live in exile in Aschaffenburg. He died there in 1695.

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