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| 背面描述 | The reverse depicts a bold high-relief scene of Saint Christopher wading through water, bearing the Christ Child upon his shoulder, with the Child raising one hand in blessing and holding a celestial orb. To the right, a townscape with towers and spires represents Würzburg, rendered in fine detail. A Latin motto legend encircles the scene: A DEXTRIS EST MIHI NE COMMOVEAR, referencing Psalm 16:8. The date 1724 appears in the exergual area. The composition exemplifies the devotional iconographic tradition common to Franconian ecclesiastical gold coinage of the period. |
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Christoph Franz von Hutten served as Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1724 until his death in 1729 — a tenure of barely five years. This ducat was struck in the first year of his episcopate, almost certainly as a ceremonial issue marking his elevation to the see. Würzburg's gold ducats under the Prince-Bishops functioned largely as presentation pieces and gifts within diplomatic and ecclesiastical circles rather than as everyday trade currency.
The Hutten family had deep roots in Franconian nobility, producing one of the most famous German humanists of the Reformation period in Ulrich von Hutten — though that branch and this Prince-Bishop's line had long since diverged in both faith and fortune.