1 Ducat

Nuremberg struck ducats continuously through the Thirty Years' War, which by 1635 had already consumed the city's immediate region for seventeen years. The Peace of Prague was signed that same year, briefly pulling most German princes away from the Swedish alliance — a political realignment that left Nuremberg, which had sheltered Swedish forces and Gustavus Adolphus himself in 1632, in an awkward diplomatic position. Gold issues of this period served hard commercial and diplomatic functions; paper and debased silver had become deeply distrusted across the Empire.

KM#135 is the standard municipal ducat type of this period, struck to the Rhenish ducat weight standard Nuremberg maintained with unusual consistency throughout the war years.