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1 Ducat - Joseph Clemens
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Cologne |
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| Year | 1694 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#78 |
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| Obverse lettering | IOSEPH CLEMENS D G A C S R I P EL E F R A B U B D |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Joseph Clemens of Bavaria was appointed Archbishop-Elector of Cologne in 1688 at age seventeen, a nakedly political maneuver by his Wittelsbach family to extend dynastic influence over the Rhineland electorate. His reign almost immediately collapsed under the weight of that politics: when he backed the French candidate during the War of the Grand Alliance, Emperor Leopold I had him suspended and then exiled in 1702, handing the see to a Habsburg ally. This 1694 ducat was struck during the narrow window of his functional rule before that rupture.