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1 Gold Ecu - Ferdinand of Bavaria Late type, date in field
| Issuer | Prince-Bishopric of Liège |
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| Year | 1635 |
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| Value | 1 Gold Ecu (7) |
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| Obverse description | Central floriated and forked cross with foliate terminals, surmounted by a crown at the top arm, with the initial letter F placed in each of the four angles between the arms. The entire design is rendered in high relief in the hammered style typical of early seventeenth-century ecclesiastical coinage. A beaded inner circle separates the central device from the surrounding Latin legend. |
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| Mintage | 1635 |
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Ferdinand of Bavaria held the Prince-Bishopric of Liège from 1612 until his death in 1650, simultaneously governing Cologne, Münster, Hildesheim, and Paderborn — an accumulation of ecclesiastical territories that made him one of the most powerful clerics in the Holy Roman Empire. This late-type ecu appeared during the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that devastated the surrounding regions while Liège maintained a precarious official neutrality enforced largely by Ferdinand's political dexterity and his family's close ties to the Habsburgs.
The placement of the date in the field distinguishes this emission from the earlier type, where the date appeared in the legend — a small but cataloguers' reliable diagnostic when separating Delmonte G#354 from its predecessor.