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2 Ducats - John Frederick Charles of Ostein
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1745-1748 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#284, Fr#1676, Pr.Alex#677, Walther#519 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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John Frederick Charles of Ostein served as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1743 until his death in 1763, a tenure that coincided with the turbulent lead-up to the Seven Years' War. Mainz, as one of the three ecclesiastical electorates of the Holy Roman Empire, retained the right to strike gold coinage — a privilege jealously maintained even as the political weight of the electorate diminished against the rising power of Prussia and Austria.
The four-year window of this issue suggests production tied to a specific fiscal need rather than a continuous minting program.