I realized when I saw this coin this morning I still did not have a decent Bavarian coin in my collection. It's not spectacular but it's solid and original and priced right.
1911D Bavarian Zwei Mark XF

Nice coin

Nice piece! It commemorates the 90th birthday of Luitpold - interesting because he was not king but just regent, so there are no "regular" coins with his effigy.

Christian

Tabbs! Nice bit of information-thanks!

Was the monarch mad, or just not of majority? I know that Bavaria had the mad King in the 1850's though.

Nice looking original coin !!!

Aulde one-good to see you!

Love your sig line...

Nice looking coin, I've seen a few of them in person. I like the original toning.

The former. There was the famous king Ludwig (II.) for example, the one who had Neuschwanstein castle built. He was officially declared mentally ill in 1886, and his uncle Luitpold (the guy on the coin) took over as a "regent". A few days later Ludwig died in a lake south of Munich (probably suicide), and his brother Otto became king. Now Otto was mentally ill too, which is why Luitpold continued to be regent ...

When Luitpold died in 1912, his son Ludwig became regent. This Ludwig became king shortly afterwards (Ludwig III., 1913-1918) even though Otto lived until 1916.

JFTR, I am neither a monarchist nor Bavarian.

Christian

Interesting info there Christian! Gotta love mad monarchs, mostly through interbreeding no doubt.

I'm not Bavarian either, but i am a monarchist.