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3 Ducats
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1703 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA / AVREA REIP / NORIMB. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Nuremberg's multi-ducat issues of the early eighteenth century were prestige pieces, struck for presentation rather than commerce. The city's mint had long produced such multiples as diplomatic gifts and council rewards — currency in a social rather than economic sense. By 1703, the Free Imperial City was navigating the opening years of the War of the Spanish Succession, a conflict that strained the finances of virtually every German polity caught between Habsburg obligation and self-interest.
At .986 fine, the gold approaches the theoretical purity ceiling of period refinement.