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1 Ducat
| Issuer | City of Cologne |
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| Year | 1634-1636 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CASPAR / MELCH / BALTHA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cologne struck these ducats during some of the most destructive years of the Thirty Years' War, when the Rhine corridor was repeatedly contested by Swedish, Imperial, and Spanish forces. As a Free Imperial City, Cologne maintained a jealously guarded right to mint gold — a privilege it exercised with particular urgency during the 1630s, when currency debasement by warring parties made reliable gold coinage from a stable civic issuer genuinely valuable across the region.
The Noss reference spans six die pairings across this short window, suggesting sustained if not heavy production. Fr#766 ties this issue into the broader ducat weight standard then common across the Holy Roman Empire.