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3 Ducats
| Issuer | Strasbourg, City of |
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| Year | 1681 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the elaborate civic arms of Strasbourg — a quartered shield bearing the city's heraldic device — supported by two rampant lions facing inward, rendered in high relief with fine baroque detail. Above the shield rises an ornate crowned helm surmounted by elaborate mantling and acanthus-style crest work. The entire composition rests on a finely hatched ground line. The circumferential legend GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO runs along the outer border in bold capital letters, separated from the inner design by a beaded inner circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a four-line Latin inscription in bold raised capital letters reading DVCATUS / REIPUBLICÆ / ARGENTO / RATENSIS, signifying the ducat of the Republic of Strasbourg, elegantly framed by two symmetrical laurel branches that sweep from a small ornamental device at the base to a fleur-de-lis finial at the apex. The inscription fills the field in a clean, authoritative arrangement characteristic of late seventeenth-century German civic coinage. A fine beaded border encircles the entire design, and the milled edge treatment is visible at the coin's rim. |
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