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2 Sovereigns - Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria
| Issuer | Namur, County of |
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| Year | 1712 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped bust of Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, facing right, with flowing long curled wig rendered in fine Baroque detail. The portrait is executed in high relief in the prevailing Louis XIV court style. The circumferential Latin legend reads MAX. EMANVEL - V. B. S. P. B. L. L. &. G. DVX, with the date 1712 interrupting the legend at the top of the coin. A small mintmaster's mark appears in the lower field beneath the bust truncation. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria occupied the Spanish Netherlands — including Namur — as Governor-General from 1692, but his support for France during the War of the Spanish Succession cost him everything: Louis XIV's defeat at Ramillies in 1706 drove him from the region entirely. He governed in exile from Mons, then from French territory, issuing coinage in his own name for territories he no longer physically controlled. This piece dates to that phantom administration, struck six years after he had lost effective possession of Namur.
The Treaty of Utrecht the following year, 1713, extinguished his claim permanently.