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2 Ducats - Matthias II Prague
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1611 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a pelican in her piety, standing on a grassy mound and pecking at her own breast to feed her young nestlings below, with a serpent coiled at the base to the left. The bird is rendered in fine relief with detailed feathering. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device within a beaded border, reading SALVTEM EX INIMICIS NOSTRIS ('Salvation from our enemies'), a biblical phrase from Luke 1:71 serving as the coronation motto. The composition is characteristic of the refined hammered goldsmith work of the Bohemian mint at Prague in the early seventeenth century. |
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| Obverse lettering | SALVTEM EX INIMICIS NOSTRIS |
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| Edge | Plain |
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