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2 Maximilian d'Or - Maximilian II Emanuel
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1623-1752) |
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| Obverse lettering | M · E · V · B · & P · S · D · C · P · R · S · R · I · A · & E · L · L * |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Maximilian II Emanuel struck this double gold piece while still rebuilding his position after one of the most catastrophic political miscalculations of his reign — his alliance with Louis XIV against the Habsburgs in the War of the Spanish Succession had cost him his electorate entirely. Banned and exiled to the Spanish Netherlands from 1706, he was only restored to Bavaria by the Treaty of Baden in 1714, three years before this coin was struck.
The 1717 issue belongs to his resumed coinage program, reasserting electoral authority after a decade of dispossession. He died the following year.