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1 Dukatenklippe Silver pattern strike
| Issuer | Stuttgart, City of |
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| Year | 1740 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Panoramic cityscape of Stuttgart rendered in fine relief, depicting the city's skyline with towers, spires, and rooftops extending across the field of the square klippe flan. A beaded inner border frames the city view, with a rope or cable border running along the outer edge of the klippe. Below the city view, in two lines within the lower field, the Latin legend STVTTGAR / DIA appears, with a small decorative ornament beneath. |
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| Reverse description | An elaborate baptismal font occupies the central field, rendered in fine detail with a multi-tiered pedestal base, a large basin, and a figure standing atop the font holding symbolic objects including a chalice. An all-seeing eye with radiating rays of glory is depicted above the font in the upper field. The legend is distributed around the four sides of the square klippe field reading MEIN PATH / ALL STUNT / GEDENCK / DEIN / BUND, framed by a beaded inner border and rope outer border. A small star ornament appears at the lower point of the klippe. |
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Klippen of this type from Stuttgart were produced not for circulation but as presentation pieces — gifts exchanged at civic ceremonies, guild celebrations, or between magistrates. The square flan format was a deliberate signal of occasion; round coins were commerce, klippen were protocol. Ebner's census for this issue is thin, and surviving examples turn up almost exclusively in old German cabinet collections rather than trade channels, which suggests original distribution was narrow and recipients treated them accordingly.