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7 Ducats - Thomas I
| Issuer | Haldenstein, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1617 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | THOMAS L B AB HERENFELS D IN HALD 16 17 |
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Haldenstein was a tiny lordship in the Graubünden region of present-day Switzerland, and its right to strike gold coinage in the early seventeenth century was a privilege jealously guarded and infrequently exercised. Thomas I von Schauenstein held the lordship from 1608 and commissioned multiple-ducat pieces of this kind as prestige objects rather than circulating currency — seven-ducat strikes at this weight were effectively presentation pieces, distributed as diplomatic gifts or marks of favor.
The Frauenfeld reference Fr#266 places this among the rarest Swiss cantonal gold issues of the period. Surviving examples are almost exclusively in institutional collections.