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2 Ducats Bicentenary of the Reformation
| Issuer | Rothenburg ob der Tauber, City of |
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| Year | 1717 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1717 - date as chronogram |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber struck this piece in 1717 to mark exactly two hundred years since Luther's posting of the Ninety-Five Theses — a commemorative impulse shared by dozens of German Protestant cities that year, each producing their own Reformationsjubiläum coinage. Rothenburg had been a Lutheran stronghold since the 1540s, and the bicentenary gave its civic authorities a pointed opportunity to reaffirm confessional identity at a moment when Habsburg Catholic pressure on Protestant imperial cities remained a live political concern.
The Franconian city's output was modest, and Fr#2599 appears infrequently at auction.