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4 Ducats
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1703 |
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| Value | 4 Ducats (4 Dukaten) (14) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1703: ND (1703) |
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Nuremberg's four-ducat pieces of this period were prestige strikings rather than workaday coinage — produced to be presented as diplomatic gifts, distributed at civic ceremonies, or retained as Schaumünzen by wealthy burghers. The Free Imperial City maintained its own mint rights jealously, and by 1703 was one of a dwindling number of German city-states still exercising that privilege with any regularity.
The year 1703 falls squarely within the War of the Spanish Succession, during which Nuremberg navigated competing pressures from the Habsburg emperor and the Bavarian elector — whose territory surrounded the city. A coin of this weight in near-pure gold was also a portable store of value in genuinely uncertain times.