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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Cologne, City of |
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| Year | 1727-1731 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (3.5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Cologne maintained the right to strike gold ducats as a Free Imperial City under the Holy Roman Empire, a privilege it guarded jealously against repeated encroachments from the Archbishop-Electors who nominally dominated the surrounding territory. The city's mint operated under strict guild oversight, and the late 1720s issues fall within a period of relative civic stability before mid-century monetary pressures began eroding municipal minting privileges across the Empire.
The Noss reference places this among a closely catalogued sequence of die varieties documented by Alfred Noss in his exhaustive study of Cologne coinage — his Corpus remains the definitive authority for distinguishing these issues.