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1 Ducat - Aureus Magnus Adenauer
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Composition | Gold (.980) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This piece is a private gold ducat issue, not an official Bundesrepublik coinage — it belongs to a category of medallic ducats produced by German private mints in the postwar decades, typically sold to collectors and investors seeking small-denomination gold outside the official monetary system. Adenauer's chancellorship ran from 1949 until his resignation in 1963, and 1961 places this squarely in the shadow of the Berlin Wall's construction in August of that year — the defining political crisis of his final years in office.