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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1745-1746 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA AUR·LIB·REIPUBL·BREMENSIS (Translation: Gold coin of the free Republic of Bremen) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bremen's ducats of this period were struck on municipal authority at a time when the city jealously guarded its status as a Free Imperial City — a designation that carried the right to mint gold coinage and which Bremen's senate treated as politically non-negotiable. The 1745–1746 dating straddles the War of the Austrian Succession, when gold coin hoarding was widespread across the German states and municipal minting often accelerated to meet local demand.
KM#189 is a short-lived type, replaced within a few years as Bremen's minting activity declined ahead of the broader consolidation of German coinage in the later 18th century.