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10 Euros Council of Constance
| Issuer | Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a stylized narrative composition divided into registers commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Council of Constance (1414–1418). The upper register depicts a group of ecclesiastical figures, including bishops identifiable by their mitres, engaged in deliberation beneath a Gothic arch, rendered in a bold linear style. The lower register is divided into three panels: the left and right panels show additional clerical and secular dignitaries, while the central panel features three papal tiaras floating above stylized waves, symbolizing the three rival popes deposed or resigned during the Council. The curved legend 600 JAHRE KONSTANZER KONZIL arcs along the upper periphery of the field, and the engraver's initials KP appear in the lower left field. |
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The Council of Constance (1414–1418) was the only medieval church council to depose multiple sitting popes simultaneously — three claimants to the papal throne were removed or forced to resign, ending the Western Schism that had fractured Catholic Christendom for nearly four decades. It also condemned Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake despite a safe-conduct guarantee from Emperor Sigismund, an act that triggered the Hussite Wars in Bohemia almost immediately after.
The 2014 commemorative falls in the copper-nickel collector series rather than the silver issues, limiting its appeal to type collectors over bullion buyers.