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5 Goldgulden - Ferdinand of Bayern
| Issuer | Bishopric of Hildesheim |
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| Year | 1615-1617 |
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| Value | 5 Goldgulden (16.25) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ferdinand of Bavaria was appointed Bishop of Hildesheim in 1612 through the determined dynastic strategy of his family, holding it simultaneously with the Archbishopric of Cologne and several other sees — a concentration of ecclesiastical power that drew considerable resentment from Protestant estates in Lower Saxony. This multiple-benefice accumulation was precisely the kind of Roman Catholic consolidation that sharpened regional tensions in the years immediately preceding the Thirty Years' War.
The five-Goldgulden denomination, at roughly triple the weight of a standard Goldgulden, was struck for prestige rather than commerce. Mehl's Hild#480 records this as a rare type; surviving examples in any condition are seldom encountered at auction.