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Ducat
| Issuer | Abbey of Rheinau (Zürich) |
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| Year | 1710 |
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| Currency | Ducat (1711-1728) |
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| Obverse description | Two coats of arms displayed side by side in the field: that of the Abbey of Rheinau and that of the Zurlauben family. Above each shield rises a crested helmet, with a mitre resting on a cushion centered between them. Foliate and vegetal ornaments fill the surrounding field in Baroque style. The circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, identifying Gerold II by the grace of God as Abbot of Rheinau. |
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| Obverse lettering | ✱ GEROLDVS II D G ABB AS RHENOVIENSIS |
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The Abbey of Rheinau was a Benedictine house on a tight loop of the Rhine near Schaffhausen, granted limited coinage rights that it exercised only sporadically across the early eighteenth century. This 1710 ducat falls within a small cluster of issues the abbey produced before those rights were effectively curtailed — the canton of Zürich absorbed Rheinau's temporal authority in stages, and by the mid-century the abbey's independent monetary activity had all but ceased. Ducats from Rheinau appear across multiple major Swiss references precisely because so few were struck; the abbey never functioned as a serious mint, and each issue was more assertion of ecclesiastical privilege than practical monetary output.