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1 Ducat - Amand of Buseck
| Issuer | Abbey of Fulda |
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| Year | 1744 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Amand von Buseck, Prince-Abbot of Fulda, facing right, depicted with a voluminous curled wig and richly ornamented ecclesiastical vestments including a lace-trimmed rochet and a pectoral cross visible at the chest. The effigy is rendered in high relief in a confident Baroque portrait style. A continuous Latin legend in raised letters encircles the bust within a beaded border, identifying the sitter by name and dignitary titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | FVLDA·X·SÆC· GLORIOSA IVBILAT 1744 ND (Translation: FULDA X SAEC(ulis) GLORIOSA IUBILAT = The Glorious Jubilee of 10 centuries of Fulda ND is the engraver`s mark (Johann Nikolaus Dittmar)) |
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Amand von Buseck ruled as Prince-Abbot of Fulda from 1737 until his death in 1756, presiding over one of the most architecturally ambitious periods in the abbey's history — the completion of the baroque palace complex begun by his predecessors consumed enormous resources and likely influenced the minting of prestige gold issues like this ducat. Fulda held the rank of an imperial abbey, giving its abbots the right to strike coin as princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
The .986 fineness conforms to the ducat standard established by imperial convention, maintained across German states with unusual consistency through the eighteenth century.