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1⁄32 Ducat
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1700 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The crowned quartered coat of arms of Nuremberg, displaying the imperial eagle and diagonal bars, flanked symmetrically on either side by a palm branch. The shield is surmounted by a small crown, and the entire device is set within a beaded border typical of the period. |
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| Mint | Nuremberg Mint |
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Nuremberg's fractional ducat series pushed goldsmith technique to its practical limit. At 4.5 mm, these pieces required the city's die-cutters to work at a scale where the slightest variation in the blank's thickness made the difference between a struck coin and a cracked flan. The free imperial city maintained its minting rights jealously into the eighteenth century, long after smaller polities had surrendered theirs to territorial princes — which is precisely why issues like this one exist at all.