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1 Ducat - Louis Rudolph Bicentenary of the Reformation
| Issuer | Brunswick-Blankenburg, Principality of |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (3.5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic view of the town of Blankenburg displayed in the lower portion of the field, with a flying angel above bearing attributes symbolic of the Evangelical Reformation. A four-line Latin inscription occupies the upper field, with the Roman numeral date MDCCXVII and the specific date of the Reformation anniversary (D. 31 OCT.) recorded in the exergue, commemorating the bicentenary of Luther's posting of the Ninety-Five Theses. |
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The Bicentenary of the Reformation in 1717 prompted a wave of commemorative medallic coinage across the Lutheran German states, with Brunswick-Blankenburg among the principalities that seized on the occasion as both a religious statement and a demonstration of dynastic legitimacy. Louis Rudolph had converted territories and court culture firmly around Lutheran orthodoxy, and the 1717 jubilee — marking two centuries since Luther's Wittenberg theses — gave smaller German rulers a rare opportunity to assert confessional identity in gold.
The .986 fineness places this squarely in the tradition of high-purity ducats minted for presentation rather than circulation.