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1 Gold Florin - Ferdinand of Bavaria
| Issuer | Prince-Bishopric of Liège |
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| Year | 1619 |
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| Currency | Florin Brabant-Liege (1545-1650) |
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| Obverse description | Facing figure of the crowned Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon, holding the Christ Child on her left arm; the Infant raises his right hand in blessing. Below the Virgin, a crowned heraldic shield bearing the arms of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège is displayed in the lower field. The circular legend runs around the periphery, separated by pellet stops. |
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| Reverse description | Double-headed imperial eagle displayed with wings spread, surmounted by a royal crown; the eagle's tail feathers divide the two-digit date 16-19 in the lower field. The issuer's full titular legend runs continuously around the coin in the outer legend, separated by pellet stops, identifying Ferdinand of Bavaria in his ecclesiastical and secular capacities. |
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Ferdinand of Bavaria held the Prince-Bishopric of Liège from 1612 until his death in 1650, simultaneously accumulating ecclesiastical titles across the Holy Roman Empire — he was also Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Bishop of Hildesheim, Bishop of Paderborn, and Bishop of Münster. This concentration of benefices in a single Wittelsbach hand was a deliberate dynastic strategy, and the florin coinages struck across his various territories reflect the administrative complexity of managing multiple mints under one lord. The 1619 date places this issue in the year after the Defenestration of Prague, on the eve of a war that would devastate much of Ferdinand's broader territorial sphere.