2 Ducats - Bogislaus XIV Burial

Bogislaus XIV died in 1637 as the last ruling duke of the Pomeranian Greifen dynasty, ending a line that had governed the region for roughly five centuries. This piece was struck posthumously in 1654 — seventeen years after his death — as part of the funeral commemorations delayed by the Thirty Years' War, which had left Pomerania utterly devastated and under Swedish military occupation at the time of his passing. The formal burial ceremonies could not proceed until political and territorial arrangements were sufficiently settled.

Sweden ultimately claimed most of Pomerania under the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, making this coin an issue of a duchy that no longer functionally existed when it was struck.