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1 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1796 |
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| Currency | Konventionsthaler (1754-1807) |
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| Reverse description | A detailed panoramic view of the city of Nuremberg, depicted with multiple towers, spires, and fortified walls rendered in a fine engraved style characteristic of late 18th-century German municipal coinage. A radiant sun with emanating rays appears above the skyline in the upper field. The numeral '1', denoting the denomination, is situated centrally above the city view. The date '1796' is inscribed in the exergue below the cityscape, flanked by small ornamental stops. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 · 1796 · |
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By 1796, Nuremberg's status as a free imperial city was effectively finished — French revolutionary armies had destabilized the entire southwestern Reich, and the city was bankrupt, having spent decades in fiscal decline under crushing debt obligations. This kreuzer was struck just six years before Nuremberg was absorbed into Bavaria in 1806, ending over eight centuries of municipal autonomy. Billon coinage of this final period tends to survive in better condition than earlier issues simply because civic minting activity had contracted so sharply that output was limited.