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1⁄16 Ducat Linsendukat
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1700 |
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| Currency | Reichsguldiner (1620-1753) |
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| Reverse description | The Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) depicted in left-facing profile, passant, with a halo above its head and a long staff-mounted banner with a pennant curling behind it, symbolising the Resurrection. The lamb stands within a beaded inner circle set against an open field, the whole enclosed by the square klippe border with a raised outer rim. No legend accompanies the device; the Agnus Dei was a long-standing reverse type for Nuremberg gold ducats and their fractions, reflecting the city's devotional iconographic tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nuremberg's tiny fractional ducats — the so-called Linsendukat, named for their resemblance to a lentil — were struck primarily as New Year's gifts distributed by the city council, a tradition the republic maintained well into the eighteenth century. At 0.22 grams, producing consistent blanks at this scale pushed the technical limits of the period's rolling and cutting equipment, and planchet irregularities are endemic to the type rather than signs of any particular die failure.