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10 Ducats - Aureus Magnus Bremen
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Reference(s) | X#M64 |
| Obverse description | Central design features a full-length armored figure of Roland, the traditional civic guardian of Bremen, standing upright and facing forward while holding a sword in his right hand and a shield bearing the Bremen eagle in his left. Roland is depicted before a tall flagpole flying the city's banner, flanked on either side by prominent architectural landmarks of Bremen rendered in fine relief. The curved legend CIVITAS HANSEATICA arcs along the upper periphery, while the date 1958 and the city name BREMA appear in the lower exergual area, separated by decorative dots. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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This is a restrike of a historical Bremen municipal gold piece, produced in 1958 as a bullion-adjacent prestige issue rather than circulating currency — the Federal Republic had no business striking ducats, a denomination dead for over a century, but civic commemorative tradition in German free cities ran deep enough to justify it. Bremen's senate had a long history of commissioning large-format gold multiples for diplomatic gifts and civic ceremony, a practice stretching back to the seventeenth century.
The X# prefix in the Krause reference places it firmly in the "unofficial" category — legal tender nowhere, but recognized as a coherent series by collectors.