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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Konstanz, City of |
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| Year | 1652-1654 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Double-headed imperial eagle displayed, each head crowned with an arched imperial crown above, and a central shield bearing the horizontally striped arms of the Holy Roman Empire on the eagle's breast. The wings are spread wide with detailed feather work in the baroque style. The circular Latin legend around the periphery gives the titles of Emperor Ferdinand III as Holy Roman Emperor. |
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| Reverse lettering | FERDINAND: III • D • G • ROM • IMP • S • AVG • |
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Konstanz struck these ducats in the early 1650s under the shadow of a city exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, which had ended only in 1648 — and whose peace treaty, the Peace of Westphalia, had been partly negotiated at Osnabrück and Münster while Konstanz itself bore the economic strain of a protracted conflict. The right of imperial free cities to strike gold coinage was jealously guarded, and issues from smaller cities like Konstanz are accordingly thin in surviving numbers. Fr#844 places this squarely among the rarer southern German city gold types.