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1 Ducat Steckenreiterklippe
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1650 |
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| Weight | 3.43 g |
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| Obverse description | Within the diamond-shaped klippe field, a Steckenreiter (hobby-horse rider) — a young boy wearing a plumed hat — is depicted facing left, brandishing a riding whip in his raised right hand while astride a hobbyhorse. The figure is rendered in the folk-festival tradition associated with Nuremberg's Peace celebrations of 1650. Surrounding the central figure, the commemorative legend is distributed across the field in multiple lines, referencing the Peace of Westphalia festivities held in Nuremberg, with the date 16/50 flanking the rider. The klippe has a milled or rope-patterned border along all four edges. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Steckenreiter klippe is one of Nuremberg's most distinctive civic issues, struck as a New Year's gift coin — a Neujahrsgeschenk — distributed by the city council to favored recipients. The square format was deliberate, distinguishing these presentation pieces from ordinary circulation coinage. 1650 places this squarely in the immediate aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia, signed in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years' War and left Nuremberg, a city that had endured occupation, plague, and severe economic disruption, cautiously reasserting its civic identity.
Fresco 1840 is among the scarcer Nuremberg ducat klippe references, with surviving examples concentrated in a handful of German institutional collections.