1 Ducat

Hamburg's ducats of the late fifteenth century were struck to the Rhenish standard, which allowed them to circulate freely across the major trade networks connecting the North Sea ports to the Rhine valley and beyond. The city had been minting gold since the 1340s, and by 1497 its coinage carried enough commercial credibility that Hamburg ducats were accepted by weight and reputation rather than requiring assay at each transaction.

The Friedberg 1100 reference places this among the earlier Hamburg gold types before the city's minting practices were restructured in the sixteenth century.