Nürnberg. Free City gold "City View" 5 Ducat 1698-GFN MS62 NGC, KM232, Fr-1873, Erlanger-576. 17.4gm. By G.F. Nurnberger. A monumental multiple Ducat across numerous categories, including size, absolute and conditional rarity, and historicity. While this charming "city view" type is traditionally associated with the Peace of Rijswijk, effectively ending the Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance, some suggest the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia as a potential reason for this issue's production. Regardless of the original intent, the offering at hand endures as a conditional and aesthetic outlier, one that any collector of the series will eagerly anticipate. Every feature rises in clean contrast against its surrounding, pondlike expanse, lending a semi-Prooflike quality to the overall appearance. While precluded from finer designations due to scattered handling wisps one comes to expect from these large gold issues, this does little to hinder the overall visual charm of the piece at hand, making for an opportunity not to be missed when this piece crosses the auction block.

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