1957 GOLD GERMANY DUCAT PROOF AUREUS MAGNUS MARIA THERESA COIN

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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (WEST GERMANY) (1949-1990)
GOLD PROOF
DUCAT -
AUREUS MAGNUS
PRIVATE MEDALLIC SERIES ISSUE
OBV:
PORTRAIT BUST OF THE YOUNG MARIA THERESA LEFT FLANKED BY LIFE DATES; DATE BENEATH BUST.
REV:
ORNATE EMBLEM OF A CROSS WITH SIX ARMS EACH HAVING STYLIZED FLORIATE TERMINI, BETWEEN STYLIZED LILLIES IN ANGLES; DENOMINATION CENTER; SURROUNDING LATIN LEGEND "PRO PROSPERITATE MUNDI (FOR THE PROSPERITY OF THE WORLD)" ABOVE AND "AUREUS MAGNUS (GREAT GOLD)" BELOW.
MARIA THERESA
(REIGNED 1740-1780), WAS THE ONLY FEMALE MONARCH OF THE HABSBURG DOMINIONS AND LAST OF THE ELDER LINE. IN HER OWN RIGHT SHE WAS QUEEN REGNANT OF HUNGARY, BOHEMIA, CROATIA, GALICIA, LODOMERIA, THE AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS AND ARCHDUCHESS OF AUSTRIA AND DUCHESS OF MILAN, MANTUA AND PARMA, ETC., ETC. AS WIFE OF EMPEROR FRANCIS I (b. 1708, d. 1765), SHE WAS ALSO EMPRESS CONSORT OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, GRAND DUCHESS OF TUSCANY AND DUCHESS OF LORRAINE.
AS THE ELDEST SURVIVING CHILD OF EMPEROR CHARLES VI (1685-1740), THE EMPEROR SPENT MUCH OF HIS REIGN IN SECURING THE HABSBURG SUCCESSION FOR HIS DAUGHTER, AN INHERITANCE CONTRARY TO THE ANCIENT SALIC LAW WHICH FORBADE WOMEN FROM REGNAL POWER.
WHEN MARIA THERESA DID SUCCEED, THE SANCTIONS HER FATHER HAD MADE WERE REPUDIATED BY PRUSSIA, BAVARIA, SAXONY AND FRANCE, WHICH LEAD TO THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION (1740-1748). IN THE WAR, MARIA THERESA LOST THE PROVINCE OF SILESIA WHICH SHE WOULD TRY TO RECLAIM FROM PRUSSIA UNSUCCESFULLY DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR (1756-1763).
IN 1736, SHE MARRIED FRANCIS STEPHEN OF LORRAINE, AND IN 1745 SHE SECURED FOR HIM THE IMPERIAL CROWN OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. MARIA THERESA AND EMPEROR FRANCIS I (1708-1765) WOULD HAVE SIXTEEN CHILDREN, INCLUDING TWO HOLY ROMAN EMPERORS AND MARIE ANTOINETTE, THE UNFORTUNATE QUEEN OF LOUIS XVI OF FRANCE.
MARIA THERESA WAS A MUCH STRONGER PERSONALITY THAN EITHER HER HUSBAND OR THEIR SON JOSEPH, BOTH IN TURN HER CO-RULERS, AND RULED AS AN ABSOLUTE MONARCH WITH A COUNCIL OF ADVISERS. DURING HER 40 YEAR REIGN, SHE REORGANIZED AUSTRIA'S MILITARY, ENCOURAGED ACRICULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL REFORM AND PROMOTED TRADE WHILE MAINTAINING ABSOLUTISM, SUPPORTING RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE AND A CLIMATE OF BACKWARD SUPERSTITION THROUGHOUT HER PROVINCES.
THIS COIN IS BASED ON TRADE COINAGE DUCATS. THIS BEAUTIFUL MEDAL IS PART OF A PRIVATE SERIES ISSUED BY MEDALLIST WERNER GRAUL (1904-1984) AND HIS SON JURGEN GRAUL OF GERMANY, WHICH WAS MINTED AT THE VIENNA MINT (NOW AUSTRIAN MINT) AND THE HAMBURG MINT. THERE WAS ALSO A SERIES IN SILVER CALLED THE ARGENTEUS SERIES. BOTH THE GOLD AND SILVER EDITIONS WERE ISSUED HOPING TO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS OF A GLOBAL CURRENCY BASED ON GOLD TO INDEX AGAINST INFLATION.
CONTAINS 3.5 GRAMS OF .980 FINE GOLD (.11 OZ AGW)
20 MM IN DIAMETER
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