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1 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1796 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The arms of Nuremberg displayed as a quartered shield, featuring a demi-eagle on the dexter half and diagonal barry on the sinister half, supported on either side by rampant lions as heraldic supporters. The shield is surmounted by a mural crown with three visible towers, the whole composition rendered in high relief within a plain field. The coin has a reeded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 17 96 1 KREU ZER. N |
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By 1796, Nuremberg's days as a free imperial city were numbered — Napoleon's reorganization of German territories would extinguish its centuries-old autonomy just a decade later, in 1806, when it was absorbed into the Kingdom of Bavaria. This tiny silver kreuzer belongs to the city's final years of independent coinage, struck while French forces were actively campaigning across the Rhine and the Holy Roman Empire was visibly disintegrating around it.