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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Stralsund, City of |
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| Year | 1671 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | AUREUS NOVUS STRALSUND 1671 HIH |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stralsund spent much of the seventeenth century under Swedish control following the Thirty Years' War, and by 1671 the city retained its municipal minting privileges largely as a formality of civic prestige rather than commercial necessity. Gold ducats of this type were produced in very small numbers, almost certainly for presentation or diplomatic purposes rather than trade circulation. The city's Swedish overlords had little interest in funding a competitive local gold coinage.
Ahlström's cataloguing of this type documents it as genuinely rare in any condition.