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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1635-1645 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (1 Dukat) (3.5) |
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| Obverse lettering | PAX NOVA INVAT REDEAT MARS PELHAQAE FEROX |
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| Mintage | 1635 - - 1636 - - 1637 - - 1638 - - 1639 - - 1640 - - 1641 - - 1642 - - 1643 - - 1644 - - 1645 - - |
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Nuremberg's municipal ducats of this decade were struck against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, during which the city endured a catastrophic siege by Imperial and Bavarian forces in 1632. The suffering was severe enough that Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden personally oversaw the relief effort — unsuccessfully. Plague and famine killed more soldiers outside the walls than combat did inside them.
The city retained minting rights as a Free Imperial City and continued producing gold coinage even as the war guttered on around it. KM#136 spans a full decade of production, suggesting the dies were reused extensively rather than retired annually.