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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Regensburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1765-1790 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Emperor Joseph II facing right, with elaborately curled hair adorned with a laurel wreath and wearing an ornate imperial mantle decorated with jewelled clasps and embroidered trim. The engraver's initial K appears on the truncation. The circumferential legend reads IOSEPH.II. to the left and D.G.R.I.S.A. to the right, separated by stops, all within a reeded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1765-1790) |
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Regensburg occupied a peculiar constitutional position in the Holy Roman Empire — it was simultaneously a Free Imperial City and the permanent seat of the Reichstag after 1663, meaning the city hosted the Empire's perpetual diet until the Empire's dissolution in 1806. This gave Regensburg's coinage an outsized political visibility relative to its modest size. The ducat series spanning these decades circulated among diplomats, imperial delegates, and merchants navigating a city that was, in effect, the Empire's administrative heart.
The .986 fineness conforms to the standard established for imperial gold coinage, though Regensburg's mint output remained limited enough that survivors in any condition are genuinely scarce today.