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1/8 Ducat
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1700 |
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| Value | 1/8 Ducat (1/8 Dukat) (0.4375) |
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| Obverse description | Square klippe flan with a beaded inner border following the square perimeter. At center, the crowned Nuremberg eagle displayed, its wings spread, set within an ornate foliate surround of laurel or acanthus branches curling symmetrically to either side. The design is rendered in high relief characteristic of the hammered klippe technique, with fine granular texture throughout the field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Nuremberg's fractional ducat coinage of this period served a specific commercial function in a city whose merchant class demanded small-denomination gold for fine transactions. The 1/8 ducat denomination was never common — the economics of striking near half-gram gold flans made production costly relative to face value, and surviving examples from 1700 are scarce precisely because few were made. Nuremberg lost its status as a Free Imperial City in 1806 when Napoleon reorganized the German territories, ending seven centuries of municipal coinage at a stroke.