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1 Ducat - Christoph Bernhard of Galen Death
| Issuer | Bishopric of Münster |
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| Year | 1678 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (3.5) |
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| Obverse description | Quartered heraldic shield bearing the arms of Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen, incorporating the arms of the Bishopric of Münster alongside his personal family arms, surmounted by an ornate episcopal crown with elaborate foliate cresting. The escutcheon is flanked by decorative supporters and occupies the central field. A circular Latin legend runs along the entire periphery, reading CHR BERN D G EP MONA CORB B STR DIB, identifying the bishop by his titles as Prince-Bishop of Münster, Corvey, Borken, and Stromberg. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Christoph Bernhard von Galen — known to the Dutch as "Bommen Berend" for his relentless bombardment campaigns — died in September 1678, just months after signing the Treaty of Nijmegen that ended the Franco-Dutch War. This ducat was struck as a memorial issue, a practice common among German ecclesiastical states where the death of a prince-bishop occasioned both mourning coinage and a reassertion of dynastic continuity in the see.
Von Galen had spent much of his tenure embroiled in military adventurism that was extraordinary even by the standards of the bellicose prince-bishops of the Holy Roman Empire, twice besieging the city of Münster itself and allying opportunistically with Louis XIV against the Dutch Republic in 1672.