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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1759 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | MON. NOVA. AURE. LUBECENS. 1759. DPZ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lübeck's ducat coinage in this period reflects the city's stubborn insistence on monetary independence well into the eighteenth century, when most smaller German states had been absorbed into larger currency systems or forced into compromise agreements. As a Free Hanseatic city, Lübeck retained full minting rights and exercised them with conservative regularity — the 1759 ducat continues a type that changed remarkably little across decades of production.
The Seven Years' War was in its third year when this piece was struck, and Hanseatic neutrality made Lübeck's gold a trusted medium at a moment when debased wartime coinage circulated widely across the German states.