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2 Ducats - Gerold II von Zurlauben Uniface
| Issuer | Abbey of Rheinau |
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| Year | 1723 |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Abbot Gerold II von Zurlauben in right profile, wearing a biretta and a pectoral cross suspended from a chain over his cope. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the clerical vestments. The surrounding legend reads GEROLD · II · ABB · RHENOV ·, contained within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gerold II von Zurlauben served as abbot of Rheinau from 1696 until his death in 1735, presiding over one of the oldest Benedictine houses on the Rhine — founded in the 8th century on a river island near Schaffhausen. Rheinau held imperial immediacy, meaning the abbot answered directly to the Emperor rather than any territorial lord, a status that conferred the right to strike coinage. This uniface piece, struck in silver despite its ducat denomination, reflects the ceremonial rather than monetary function of abbatial coinages: produced for presentation, not circulation.