1 Ducat Steckenreiterklippe

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.