1 Ducat

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.