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2 Thaler - Philip Julius Death
| Issuer | Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast (German States) |
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| Year | 1625 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIPPVS IVLIVS D G DVX STET POM CASSV ET VAN |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip Julius, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast, died in February 1625 as the last male of his line, extinguishing the Wolgast branch and setting off a succession dispute that would eventually draw Swedish forces deeper into Pomeranian politics — a process accelerated catastrophically by the Thirty Years' War already tearing through the region. Death thalers of this type were memorial issues struck explicitly to mark a dynastic end, not circulated currency, which explains the survival rate in presentable condition relative to the mintage.