½ Ducat Silver pattern strike

½ Ducat (Silver pattern strike) - obverse½ Ducat (Silver pattern strike) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Free imperial city of Nuremberg (German States)
Period Free City (1219-1806)
Type Pattern
Year 1730
Value ½ Ducat (½ Dukat) (1.75)
Currency Reichsguldiner (1620-1753)
Composition Silver
Weight 1.70 g
Diameter 17.5 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
159193
References Slg. Whiti# 415,
Robert B. Whiting, Peter N. Schulten, Catherine E. Bullowa; 1983. Coins and medals of Martin Luther and the Reformation : Collection of Prof. Robert B. Whiting. Spink & Son, Zürich, Switzerland.
Brozatus# 1069a,
Klaus-Peter Brozatus; 2015. Reformatio in Nummis. Numismatischer Verlag Fritz Rudolf Künker, Osnabrück, Germany.
Schnell# 233
Hugo Schnell; 1983. Martin Luther und die Reformation auf Münzen und Medaillen. Klinkhardt & Biermann, München.

Commemorative issue

200 years of the Augsburg Confession

Obverse

Conjoined bust of Luther and Melanchthon facing right.

Script: Latin

Lettering: D.MARTIN.LVTHER.PHILIPP MELANCHTHON

Engraver: Daniel Sigmund Dockler

Reverse

Cross in clouds with surrounding rays, ship left below in a storm.
ACZG for Augsburg Confession Zweite Gedanke

Script: Latin

Lettering:
UNTER DEINEN SCHIRMEN
A. C. Z. G.
1730

Translation:
Under your protection
Augsburg Confession Second Anniversary

Engraver: Daniel Sigmund Dockler

Edge

Plain

Comments

The confession of faith of Augsburg was written by Philipp Melanchton for the diet in Augsburg in 1530 on Karl V request, and was meant as a unifying text to get to an agreement with the Catholic Princes. It was based on the Scriptures and on the first centuries of Church tradition, but also expressed Luther’s theological views. Rejected by the catholic Princes, it was to become the lutheran confession of faith as soon as 1555.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
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