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1/4 Thaler - John II
| Issuer | Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1616-1621 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | IOHAN. D.G. CO. PA. RHE. DV. BA. CO. VE. ET. SP. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John II ruled Palatinate-Zweibrücken from 1604 until his death in 1635, but this issue dates to the years immediately preceding the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that would devastate the Palatinate territories more thoroughly than almost any other region in the Holy Roman Empire. Zweibrücken itself changed hands repeatedly during the war, and ducal coinage from the pre-war period is consequently sparse in surviving collections.
The Slg. Memme reference places this piece within a carefully documented private collection of Rhenish and Palatine material, one of the more authoritative assemblages for this overlooked branch of the Wittelsbach line.