1 Ducat Reformation

Regensburg issued this ducat in 1642 while the city was hosting the Immerwährender Reichstag — the Imperial Diet that would become permanently seated there just a few years later. The Thirty Years' War was still grinding toward its conclusion, and Regensburg, nominally imperial but fiercely Lutheran, had particular reason to commemorate the Reformation at that moment. Protestant identity was a live political question, not a retrospective one.

Beckenbauer 2469 is among the better-documented varieties of this type. The .986 fine standard is consistent with the high-purity ducat tradition maintained by southern German free cities throughout the seventeenth century.