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1 Ducat - Maximilian II
| Issuer | Fugger-Babenhausen-Wellenburg, County of |
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| Year | 1622 |
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| Weight | 3.5 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Fugger banking dynasty received the right to strike coins at Babenhausen as a direct consequence of their financial entanglements with the Habsburg court — essentially a privilege extracted in partial settlement of debts the emperors could not repay in cash. By 1622, the Thirty Years' War was consuming imperial finances at a catastrophic rate, and minor lordships like Fugger-Babenhausen were among the few creditors still liquid enough to mint in gold.
This is a rare county-level ducat from a house better known for ledgers than dies. Fugger coinage in gold from this period surfaces infrequently at auction.