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2 Ducats - Christian Ernest
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1695 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A detailed allegorical mining scene depicting the Kronach gold mine in a mountainous landscape, with miners working in the foreground. Above, the sun god Sol drives a radiant chariot drawn by horses through billowing clouds across the sky, symbolizing the solar origin of gold. A continuous Latin legend surrounds the central scene within a rope inner border, reading NASCITUR AURUM PARTURIUNT MONTES / PERFECTUM FODINA GOLDCRONACH, referencing the birth of gold from the mountains and the Goldkronach mine. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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