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2 Ducats - William V Death
| Issuer | Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1637 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1637 GK |
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William V of Hesse-Cassel died in September 1637, a landgrave whose reign was consumed almost entirely by the Thirty Years' War. He had kept Hesse-Cassel in the Protestant alliance at enormous cost — Swedish subsidies kept his army in the field, but much of his territory was occupied or devastated by the time he died. Memorial ducat issues of this kind were a standard dynastic practice in the German states, struck in small quantities for distribution among court, clergy, and allied nobility rather than any commercial circulation.
The Schütz reference places this among a small documented group, and surviving examples are infrequently traded.