2 Goldgulden - Christian William of Brandenburg

Christian William of Brandenburg was appointed Administrator of Magdeburg in 1608 — a Protestant holding a nominally Catholic archiepiscopal see, a compromise arrangement increasingly common in post-Reformation German ecclesiastical territories. He would later make the catastrophic decision to side openly with Frederick V during the Thirty Years' War, ultimately losing the archbishopric entirely. These gold issues date from the relatively stable years before that unraveling.

The double goldgulden denomination served primarily as a prestige and presentation piece rather than everyday exchange. Magdeburg's mint activity in gold was never prolific, and surviving examples from this administrator's tenure are genuinely scarce.