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2 Kreuzers - Charles Louis
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1662-1673 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the crowned rampant lion of the Palatinate is depicted rearing to the left, rendered in the bold relief characteristic of mid-17th-century German coinage. A Latin legend encircles the central device, recording the titles of Elector Karl Ludwig (Charles Louis), Count Palatine of the Rhine. The inscription reads continuously around the periphery within the outer border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, had his Rhine Palatinate restored by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 after it had been stripped from his father Frederick V — the ill-fated "Winter King" — following the disastrous defeat at White Mountain in 1620. The intervening decades had left the Palatinate economically gutted, and the small silver issues of Charles Louis's reign reflect a systematic effort to rebuild a functioning regional currency from very little.
The eleven-year striking window for this type suggests dies were refreshed multiple times, and minor varieties within KM#104 are known to exist across the run.