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2 Ducats Silver pattern strike, Coronation
| Issuer | Free Imperial City of Frankfurt |
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| Year | 1612 |
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| Value | 2 Ducats (2 Dukaten) (7) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Emperor Matthias II facing right, wearing an elaborate ruff collar and gorget with decorative engraving, within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend in Latin reads MATTHIAS II D G HRE REX CORONAT ROM, referencing his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, with the legend continuing along the lower arc of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | MATTHIAS·II·D·G·HRE·REX·CORONAT·ROM |
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Frankfurt struck pattern pieces in silver for the coronation of Matthias as Holy Roman Emperor in June 1612, alongside the standard gold issues — a practice that allowed the city to document its coinage types for archival and presentation purposes without committing full gold weight to every distributed piece. Matthias's election followed the forced abdication of his brother Rudolf II, whose increasingly erratic rule had paralyzed imperial governance for years.
The Förschner reference places this among a tightly catalogued group of Frankfurt coronation patterns, most surviving in handful quantities across institutional collections.