1636, Nurnberg (Free City). Gold Ducat Coin. NGC MS-62!
Mint Year: 1636 Denomination: Ducat Mint Master: Hans David Lauer (1639-1646). Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as MS-62! Reference: Friedberg 1828, Erlanger 357, Kellner 60, KM-136. Mint Place: Nuremberg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire). Material: Gold (.986) Diameter: 25mm Weight: 3.47gm
Obverse: Star above foliaged shield with arms of Nurnberg. Legend: * SIT NOVA NVNC REDEAT MARS PERETOAE FEROX Translated: "Now peace may return (to us) and the cruel war may be ended."
Reverse: Inscription in four lines above date (16-36). All within foliaged square tablet. Legend: MONETA AVREA REIPVB : NORIB : 16 36
Nuremberg is a city situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. It is located about 170 kilometres north of Munich. The cultural flowering of Nuremberg in the 15th and 16th centuries made it the center of the German Renaissance. In 1525, Nuremberg accepted the Protestant Reformation, and in 1532, the religious Peace of Nuremberg, by which the Lutherans gained important concessions, was signed there. In 1632 during the Thirty Years' War, the city, occupied by the forces of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, was besieged by the army of Imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein.