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1 Ducat - Wolfgang von Schrattenbach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Olomouc (Kingdom of Bohemia) |
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| Year | 1733 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1613-1748) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Cardinal Wolfgang von Schrattenbach facing right, wearing a clerical mantle and pectoral cross, with elaborately curled hair rendered in high relief in the Baroque style. The effigy is contained within a beaded inner circle, with the legend commencing at 1 o'clock. The portrait is boldly struck with strong sculptural detail characteristic of early 18th-century Central European ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | WOLF D G S R E P CARD D SCHRATTENBACH EP O |
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Wolfgang von Schrattenbach served as Prince-Bishop of Olomouc from 1711 until his death in 1738, presiding over one of the wealthiest ecclesiastical territories in Moravia during the reign of Charles VI. The Bishopric held the rank of an imperial prince-bishopric, giving Schrattenbach the right to strike coinage in his own name — a privilege fiercely maintained even as Habsburg centralization steadily eroded such rights across Bohemia and Moravia through the early eighteenth century.
Fr#98 is among the scarcer ducats of his episcopate. The Olomouc mint's gold output in this period was modest and largely ceremonial in character.