2 Ducats - Charles VI Jilove Mining Ducat - Prague

Jílové — roughly 30 kilometers south of Prague — was one of Bohemia's most productive gold mining districts, active since at least the 14th century and still yielding enough ore in the early 18th century to justify dedicated mining ducats struck from locally extracted metal. These pieces were not general circulation coinage but rather documentary issues, produced to demonstrate the ongoing productivity of royal mines to the Habsburg court and to serve ceremonial and administrative functions tied to the mining economy itself.

Charles VI's reign over Bohemia coincided with the drafting of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, his ultimately fragile mechanism for securing Habsburg succession through his daughter Maria Theresa. The Jílové mines were among the crown assets whose productivity underpinned that political negotiation.