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1 Ducat Marriage
| Issuer | Augsburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1690 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (3.5) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and armored bust of Emperor Leopold I facing right, with long flowing wig; the city's pine cone device flanked by two horseshoes appears in the lower field as a mint symbol. The legend is arranged around the periphery in Latin, divided by the bust. |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Empress Eleonora Magdalene Theresa facing right, her hair elaborately dressed and adorned with floral ornaments; pearl necklace visible at the décolletage. The encircling Latin legend identifies her as Roman Empress, running continuously around the periphery of the coin. The finely detailed portrait is executed in high relief, characteristic of Augsburg commemorative coinage of the late seventeenth century. |
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Augsburg's marriage ducats occupied a peculiar civic niche — they were not struck for general circulation but commissioned as presentation pieces, typically distributed at patrician weddings within the city's tight oligarchic merchant class. The 1690 date places this piece during a period when Augsburg was still recovering economically from the Thirty Years' War's long commercial aftershocks, yet the city's goldsmiths and die-cutters retained enough institutional prestige to produce technically accomplished work.
Fr#71 confirms the fineness at .986, essentially pure by contemporary standards — a deliberate choice for a gift object where material value was the point.