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2 Ducats - Joseph II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1781-1785 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length effigy of Emperor Joseph II standing in right profile, attired in imperial regalia, holding a scepter in his right hand and the Hungarian orb in his left. The numeral 2, denoting the coin's value, appears in parentheses in the lower field below the monarch's feet. No inner circle is present. The surrounding legend in Latin abbreviates the emperor's full royal titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | PATRONA REGNI HVNGARIÆ · 1784 · (Translation: Protector os Hungary) |
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Joseph II's Hungarian ducats occupy an awkward political moment: he never agreed to a Hungarian coronation, refusing to be bound by the constitutional constraints it would impose, which meant he technically ruled as an uncrowned king. Hungarian estates resented this bitterly. The ducat series continued regardless, as gold coinage was too commercially essential to suspend over constitutional grievance.
He rescinded nearly all of his own reforms on his deathbed in 1790, but the coins remained in circulation long after.