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Auction 116  19-20 Jul 2022
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Lot 287

Starting price: 6400 GBP
Price realized: 10 000 GBP
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Germany, Münster, Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1650-78), Memorial goldgulden on his death at the age of 73, 1678, 3.15g (F. 1776), about very fine and extremely rare PRINCE-BISHOP CHRISTOPH BERNHARD VON GALEN fought on the side of Ferdinand III at the end of the Thirty Years War, becoming Bishop of Mnster in 1650. He maintained a powerful army fighting in numerous campaigns, supporting Charles II and, subsequently, Louis XIV in the Anglo-Dutch and Franco-Dutch Wars. With Denmark and Brandenburg he later conquered Bremen during the War with Sweden.

Estimate: 8000-10000 GBP
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