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2 Kreuzers - Richard
| Issuer | Palatinate-Simmern, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1578-1594 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1578 - (15)78 - 1579 - (15)79 - 1580 - (15)80 - 1581 - (15)81 - 1582 - (15)8z - 1583 - (15)83 - 141,000 1584 - (15)84 - 126,000 1585 - (15)85 - 1586 - (15)86 - 1587 - (15)87 - 93,000 1588 - (15)88 - 81,000 1589 - (15)89 - 139,000 1590 - (15)90 - 65,000 1591 - (15)91 - 1592 - (15)9z - 1593 - (15)93 - 1594 - (15)94 - 1594 - Error for (15)94 - |
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Richard of Simmern ruled the small Rhenish duchy from 1569 until his death in 1598, governing a territory caught between the advancing Counter-Reformation and the fractious politics of the Protestant Union still forming around him. The Palatinate-Simmern branch was a cadet line of the Wittelsbachs, never wealthy, and the thin silver content of these small coins reflects a treasury perpetually stretched by military obligations to the larger Electoral Palatinate.