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The 1717 date places this piece squarely within Augsburg's bicentennial commemoration of the Protestant Reformation — the city struck a series of gold and silver issues specifically for the occasion, marking two hundred years since Luther's 1517 theses. Augsburg's own religious history was uniquely fraught; the 1555 Peace of Augsburg had made the city a template for the cuius regio principle, and by 1717 it remained one of the few Imperial cities still formally divided between Catholic and Lutheran administrations, a circumstance that gave the Reformation jubilee particular local weight.