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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Weight | 3.50 g |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPERIAL. CIVIT. - LUBECENSIS. 1730 |
| Reverse description | A standing female figure, personifying the Evangelical Confession (Faith), faces the viewer at centre, draped in flowing robes and holding a cross in her right hand and an open book — likely the Augsburg Confession — in her left. The inscription in the field is divided into two columns flanking the figure: SAC. / LAR. / 25 to the left and SÆCU / SEC. / IUN. to the right, commemorating the second centenary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession on 25 June. The circular legend CONFESS. EVANG. IN. COM. AUG. EXHIBITAE. runs around the periphery, with the mint-master initials JJJ visible in the lower field. |
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Lübeck's ducat coinage persisted well into the eighteenth century largely because the city's merchant class demanded a reliable gold trade coin independent of territorial princes. By 1730, Lübeck was one of the last free imperial cities still striking gold on its own authority, a privilege it defended jealously against repeated encroachments from Hamburg and the Holstein nobility. The city's mint output in this decade was modest, which accounts for the relative infrequency of this date in the market.
The Behr reference remains the authoritative die study for Lübeck gold, and the 638b designation distinguishes a specific obverse die pairing not shared with the nearby 638a variety.