Catalog
10 Ducats - Aureus Magnus München
| Issuer | Aureus Magnus |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Currency | Aureus Magnus |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | AVORUM NON MORITURA VIRTUS X DUCAT 980 AUREUS MAGNUS |
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Aureus Magnus was a Munich-based private mint operating in the postwar decades, producing gold multiples aimed squarely at the continental collector and bullion market during a period when West German citizens still faced restrictions on private gold ownership under Allied occupation statutes that lingered into the early Federal Republic years. The firm's heavy 10-ducat pieces were not currency in any legal sense — they circulated among dealers and collectors as prestige objects, priced well above melt.
The X# prefix in the Standard Catalog places this firmly in the "notgeld and private issues" classification, sharing shelf space with other non-governmental gold struck for commerce outside official monetary channels.