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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Augsburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1767 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The city arms of Augsburg — a pine cone (symbol of Augusta Vindelicorum) displayed on a pedestal within an elaborate Baroque architectural frame flanked by ornate pilasters — surmounted by a mural crown with battlements. The date 1767 appears in the exergue below the frame. The circular legend AUGUSTA VINDELIC. flanks the composition to the left and right. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Augsburg's municipal gold coinage in the mid-eighteenth century was tied directly to the city's role as a major financial hub of the Holy Roman Empire — home to the Fugger and Welser banking dynasties generations earlier, and still a clearing center for imperial debt by the 1760s. The city exercised its minting rights jealously, producing ducats to the Reichsgolddukat standard that circulated well beyond municipal boundaries into the broader German trade network.
1767 falls within a period of relative political stability for Augsburg before the upheavals of the Napoleonic reorganization that would strip it of free city status in 1806.