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1/2 Ducat - John Philip of Lamberg
| Issuer | Passau, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1709 |
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| Weight | 1.75 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Quartered heraldic shield displaying the arms of the Bishopric of Passau and the Lamberg family, supported by rampant lions and surmounted by a princely crown. The date 09 (for 1709) appears divided to either side of the shield. The circumscription reads D G EP PAT S R I PRINCEPS, indicating the bishop's ecclesiastical and imperial titles, within a beaded border. |
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John Philip of Lamberg served as Prince-Bishop of Passau from 1689 until his death in 1712, presiding over a diocese caught between Habsburg imperial politics and the upheavals of the War of the Spanish Succession. Passau's ecclesiastical mint retained the right to strike gold through this period, though output was modest — half-ducat denominations from this bishopric in any year are genuinely scarce survivors.
Fr#2070 places this piece within Friedberg's classification of Austrian and related states gold, a grouping that underscores just how tightly Passau's monetary output was bound to Vienna's orbit rather than any independent monetary policy.