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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Stralsund, City of |
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| Year | 1655 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the city arms of Stralsund — three ceremonial staffs or batons arranged in a triangular formation — enclosed within a laurel wreath. The date 1633 appears within the wreath flanking the arms, with the mintmaster's initials CS below. A circular legend surrounds the wreath reading AVREVS NOVUS STRALSVNDENS, the coin being struck in the name of the city as a new gold issue. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Stralsund spent the first half of the seventeenth century as one of the most strategically contested ports on the Baltic, surviving a famous 1628 siege by Wallenstein's Imperial forces only through Swedish and Danish intervention. By 1655, the city operated under Swedish suzerainty following the Peace of Westphalia, and its right to strike gold was a jealously maintained privilege — a civic assertion of autonomy within a political arrangement that left little else unchallenged.
The Ahlström reference places this among the rarer die marriages of the type, with Fr#3368 long recognized as a one-city issue of limited output.