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1 Ducat - Ferdinand Maria
| Issuer | Electorate of Bavaria |
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| Year | 1655-1671 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | F • M • V • B & P • S • D • C • P - R • S • R • I • A R • E L • L • L • |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ferdinand Maria became Elector of Bavaria in 1651 following his father Maximilian I's death, inheriting a territory economically gutted by the Thirty Years' War. The ducat series spanning 1655–1671 was struck against a backdrop of slow fiscal recovery, with Bavaria attempting to reassert itself as a credible monetary power in the fragmented post-Westphalian German states. The Munich mint was the sole production facility throughout this run.
Fr#202 in Friedberg's gold coinage reference places this squarely in a well-documented but not abundant type. Survivors in anything above well-circulated grades are infrequent — these moved through trade channels actively.