2 Ducats - Rupert II of Bodman

The Abbey of Kempten was one of the oldest imperial abbeys in the Holy Roman Empire, its abbots holding the rank of princes since the early medieval period. By 1693, the abbey was still recovering economically from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, which had hit the Allgäu region particularly hard. Gold issues from Kempten's abbots are scarce precisely because the institution's resources rarely permitted sustained precious-metal coinage — a two-ducat piece under Rupert II represents an exceptional rather than routine exercise of imperial minting privilege.