Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Ducats
| Issuer | Free Imperial City of Nuremberg (German States) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1641 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Ducats (10 Dukaten) (35) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | OBIECTA MOVENT SENSVS |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Nuremberg's multiple-ducat issues of the mid-seventeenth century were struck not for circulation but for presentation — gifts to Holy Roman Emperors, visiting dignitaries, and diplomatic counterparts at a moment when the city was navigating the brutal final years of the Thirty Years' War. By 1641, Nuremberg had already hosted the ill-fated 1649 peace congress site negotiations and was feeding thousands of war refugees within its walls. These pieces functioned as bullion diplomacy, their weight in high-fineness gold speaking where civic autonomy could not.
KM#97 is among the heavier multiples from this free city's output. Surviving examples almost exclusively appear in institutional collections.