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1 Ducat - Henry
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Bornstedt, County of |
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| Year | 1774 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | BEY GOTT IST RATH - UND THAT - |
| Edge | Ornament |
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Mansfeld-Bornstedt was one of the smallest and most financially precarious subdivisions of the fragmented Mansfeld county complex, which by the eighteenth century had been parceled among numerous collateral lines through generations of inheritance disputes. By 1780, the Bornstedt line was effectively absorbed, making issues from the early 1770s among the final gasps of an independent minting authority. Henry — Heinrich Franz — had precious little economic justification for striking gold, which makes survival of any Bornstedt ducat a function of low production rather than careful preservation.