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10 Ducats - Maximilian I
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1610 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length effigy of Grandmaster Maximilian I standing facing, robed in the habit of the Teutonic Order, crowned, holding a sword upright in his right hand. To the left of the figure, the Order's shield surmounted by a lion supporter; to the right, a plumed helmet above the arms of Burgundy. The circular Latin legend runs along the inner border of a beaded outer rim: MAX: D G: AR: AVS: DVX: B VR: MAG: PRVSS: ADMI. |
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| Mintage | 1610 |
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The Teutonic Order by 1610 was a shadow of its medieval military self — stripped of Prussia in 1525 when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg converted to Lutheranism and secularized the territory, the Order had retreated to its remaining holdings in the Holy Roman Empire under the protection of the Habsburgs. Maximilian I, as Hoch- und Deutschmeister from 1590 to 1618, governed an institution that had reinvented itself as a purely Catholic religious-chivalric body, dependent on Habsburg patronage and increasingly ceremonial in function.
Large multiple-ducat pieces of this type were prestige objects, not circulation coinage. Fr#3379A is among the rarer recorded strikings from this administration.