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1 Ducat - John Kaspar of Ampringen
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1666 |
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| Weight | 3.49 g |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of the crowned Madonna standing facing, nimbus radiating about her head, holding the Christ Child on her left arm and a sceptre in her right hand, set within a radiate inner circle. The date 1666 appears to the left of the figure. The surrounding Latin legend reads MAC·DO·MAR·EVDENI·ET, invoking the Virgin Mary as patroness. The milled border frames the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | MAC·DO·MAR·EVDENI·ET·1666 |
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John Kaspar of Ampringen served as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1664 until his death in 1684, a period when the Order had long since lost its military and territorial relevance in the Baltic and functioned largely as a German noble institution with scattered estates in the Holy Roman Empire. Ducats of this type were struck at the Order's mint in Mergentheim — its administrative seat after the loss of Prussia — and circulated primarily as prestige pieces rather than commercial currency.
Prokisch's census of Teutonic Order coinage notes this as a relatively scarce emission within Ampringen's tenure.