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1 Ducat - Joseph Ignatius Philip of Hessen-Darmstadt
| Issuer | Bishopric of Augsburg |
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| Year | 1744 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Two adjacent crowned oval armorial shields displayed within an elaborate Baroque cartouche frame, surmounted by a bishop's mitre. The date 1744 is divided and placed in the lower field on either side of the frame. The motto legend SPENDOR ET AUXILIUM is inscribed around the periphery, terminating with a period. The overall composition is characteristic of the ornate Baroque heraldic style prevalent in German ecclesiastical coinage of the mid-eighteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Joseph Ignatius Philip, Count of Hessen-Darmstadt, governed the Bishopric of Augsburg from 1740 until his death in 1768, occupying a see that had been one of the wealthiest ecclesiastical territories in the Holy Roman Empire since the medieval period. Augsburg's position as a former free imperial city and banking capital — home to the Fuggers a century and a half earlier — gave its bishops an unusually robust monetary tradition, and ducats were struck here with some regularity through the eighteenth century.
The Fr#116 attribution places this squarely among the documented Hessen-Darmstadt episcopal gold issues, though surviving examples appear infrequently at auction.