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Lot 278:
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Germany, Mainz, Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (1679-95), large silver medal, undated (c.1686), 330th anniversary of the Golden Bull of 1356, bust right wearing an ermine mantle, coat of arms below, rev. crowned double eagle, arms of the 8 electors around: Mainz, Cologne, Palatinate, Brandenburg, Trier, Bohemia, Saxony and Bavaria, 64mm, 107.82g. Good very fine, attractively toned and exceedingly rare.
Condition report:
Anselm Franz von Ingelheim, born 1634, became Archbishop-Elector of Mainz in 1679, and held the position until his death in 1695. Overseeing a 16-year period of efforts for peace and neutrality, as well as the devastation wreaked by the War of the Grand Alliance. As prince-bishop of Mainz, von Ingelheim served as an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, crowning the empress Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Emperor Leopold I\'s wife, as well as their son, who would later become King Joseph I of Hungary, ruling from 1705 until 1711.
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