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1 Ducat Bicentenary of the Reformation
| Issuer | Stolberg-Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | KOMT ZVR ERKENTNIS DER WAHRHEIT • ITIM 24 * |
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The bicentenary of Luther's 1517 posting of the Ninety-Five Theses prompted a wave of commemorative coinage across the Protestant German states in 1717, and Stolberg-Stolberg — a tiny county in the Harz region — was among the lesser lordships that seized the occasion. Frederick Christian of Stolberg-Stolberg ruled a territory of negligible political weight, yet the Reformation centenary issues gave minor Protestant rulers a legitimate pretext for independent coinage that doubled as confessional propaganda directed at Catholic neighbors.
Stolberg's 1717 ducat is scarce by any measure; the county's minting capacity was limited, and surviving examples appear infrequently at auction.