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2 Ducats - Anselm Casimir Wamboldt of Umstadt
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1642-1647 |
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| Value | 2 Ducats (Dukaten) (7) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Archbishop Anselm Casimir Wamboldt von Umstadt facing right, wearing ecclesiastical vestments with a lace collar, set within a beaded inner circle. The effigy is rendered in a robust Baroque style with naturalistic detail to the hair and drapery. A Latin legend encircles the bust in the outer field, reading around the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Reverse description | Quartered heraldic shield displaying the arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz — alternating quarters bearing the Mainz wheel and the Wamboldt family arms of lozenges — surmounted by an ornate electoral crown and flanked by elaborate Baroque cartouche mantling. The date is divided and appears at the upper left and right of the crown. Archiepiscopal insignia, including the processional cross and sword, are visible behind the shield. A Latin legend encircles the composition in the outer field. |
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Anselm Casimir Wamboldt von Umstadt governed the Archbishopric of Mainz during one of its most catastrophic stretches — the city fell to Swedish forces in 1631 and remained occupied until 1636, leaving the electoral administration fractured and finances severely disrupted. These ducats were struck in the final years of his reign as the Thirty Years' War ground toward its conclusion, when Mainz was slowly reasserting institutional normalcy but far from stability.
The .986 fineness places this issue among the purer gold coinages of the period, consistent with the archbishopric's longstanding mint standards despite the surrounding political chaos. Wamboldt died in 1647, the year before the Peace of Westphalia.