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3 Ducats
| Issuer | Regensburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1765-1790 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Panoramic city view of Ratisbon (Regensburg) with the Danube River in the foreground, showing boats and riverside activity. Above the cityscape, radiating sun-rays emanate from a Hebrew Tetragrammaton (divine name) at the apex of the design. The circular legend reads OMNIA IN MANU DOMINI (All things are in the hand of the Lord) along the upper border, with the city name RATISBONA inscribed in a cartouche in the lower exergue, and the mint mark B below. The overall composition is rendered in fine engraved relief, characteristic of late 18th-century German city coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Regensburg occupied a peculiar constitutional position within the Holy Roman Empire: it was simultaneously a Free Imperial City and the permanent seat of the Reichstag after 1663, meaning the imperial diet never left. That political permanence gave the city's mint unusual institutional continuity, and multi-ducat issues like this one were struck not for everyday commerce but for presentation and diplomatic use — passed between delegates and officials who congregated there in numbers found nowhere else in the Empire.
The .986 fineness follows the established ducat standard, traceable to the 1559 imperial coinage ordinance. That the city maintained this standard through the turbulent final decades of the Empire's existence is itself notable.