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1 Ducat
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1793-1797 |
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| Weight | 3.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MON AVR LUBECENS AD LEGEM IMPERII 1793 H D F |
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Lübeck's ducats of the 1790s were struck at a moment when the city's centuries-old independence was under mounting pressure from the reorganization of German territories following the Revolutionary Wars. As a Free Hanseatic city, Lübeck retained the legal right to mint gold coinage — a right jealously guarded and increasingly anomalous as smaller German polities lost theirs. KM#198 spans a five-year emission window, suggesting intermittent production tied to commercial demand rather than continuous output.
The .986 fineness matches the long-established ducat standard set by the Holy Roman Empire in 1559, which Lübeck honored consistently even as the Empire itself dissolved in 1806.