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2 Goldgulden - August
| Issuer | Anhalt-Plötzkau, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1620 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | D:G:AUGUSTUS:PRIN:ANHAL:COM:ASC:D:BER:ET:S:1620 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Anhalt-Plötzkau was among the smallest and most short-lived of the Anhalt partition states, existing as a separate duchy only from 1603 to 1665. August, its ruling prince, issued this double goldgulden in 1620 — the opening year of the Thirty Years' War, when German princes across the Empire were scrambling to assert dynastic legitimacy and financial independence simultaneously. High-denomination gold issues from territories this small were often as much political statement as monetary instrument.
Fr#31 is exceptionally rare in any condition. Plötzkau's mint output was negligible, and survival rates for gold of this module from the early war period are poor.