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2 Kreuzers - Charles Philip
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1737 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A crowned lion rampant to the right occupies the central field, depicted in the Baroque–Rococo manner characteristic of Palatinate coinage. The lion is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, the beading arranged in undulating rococo-wave fashion. The legend, reading CHVR PFALZ with ornamental stops and floral rosettes, runs in the annulus between the beaded circle and the outer grenetis. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles Philip had been locked in a bitter dispute with the Reformed Protestant population of Heidelberg for most of his reign — he seized the Heiliggeistkirche choir for Catholic worship within months of taking power in 1716, a provocation that reverberated through the Palatinate for decades. By 1737 he was in his eighties and ruling from Mannheim, having refused to set foot in Heidelberg after the city resisted his re-Catholicization campaign. He died the following year, ending the Simmern line of the Wittelsbach dynasty and triggering the War of the Austrian Succession in part through the succession crisis his death accelerated.