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10 Ducats - Aureus Magnus Germania, 1957
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Weight | 35 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Aureus Magnus" series was a private restrike program, not an official Bundesrepublik issue — the X# prefix in the reference confirms this is a medal-coin or fantasy piece with no legal tender status in West Germany. Struck in the late 1950s by private mints catering to the European gold collector market, these large-format gold pieces exploited postwar demand for bullion-adjacent collectibles at a moment when West German citizens had only recently regained the legal right to hold monetary gold.
The .980 fineness is notably purer than standard German ducats of the early modern period, which typically ran at .979 or lower depending on the issuing state mint.