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1/2 Ducat - Charles Louis Rheingold

Uitgever Palatinate
Jaar 1674
Type Standard circulation coin
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Beschrijving keerzijde Three heraldic shields of arms arranged in a triangular composition within the field, surmounted by a crowned lion passant atop the central shield. The arrangement displays the quartered arms of the Palatinate-Rhein electorate. The date 1674 and mint initials A RH appear within the circular Latin legend, which reads DOMINVS PROVIDEBIT, meaning 'The Lord will provide.'
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Opschrift keerzijde DOMINVS PROVIDEBIT 1674 EX A RH
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Aanvullende informatie

Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, spent much of his adult life attempting to rebuild a territory gutted by the Thirty Years' War. The Palatinate had been stripped of its electoral dignity in 1623 and saw its population and infrastructure devastated by decades of occupation. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 restored Charles Louis to a newly created eighth electorate — a compromise title, inferior in precedence to the original — and he spent the following decades reconstructing Heidelberg and restoring the local economy, including its minting apparatus.

The "Rheingold" designation on this issue refers specifically to gold sourced from Rhine river alluvial deposits, a distinction that carried both commercial and political weight in the region.

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