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1/4 Ducat - Francis Maximilian
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Bornstedt, County of |
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| Year | 1671 |
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| Value | 1/4 Ducat (0.875) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1671 |
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The Mansfeld counties were carved up repeatedly among competing lines of the family throughout the seventeenth century, and by 1671 Mansfeld-Bornstedt was one of several fragmented successor territories issuing their own coinage under Imperial privilege. Francis Maximilian held the county during its twilight — Bornstedt passed out of Mansfeld family hands within a generation. Quarter ducats of this type saw extremely limited production, and Tornau's numbering of this piece as a variety suffix "a" suggests at least one obverse or reverse die variant was documented within what was already a small run.