The Fugger family was a German upper-
bourgeois family based in
Augsburg that was a prominent group of European merchants and bankers who controlled much of the European economy in the 16th century and accumulated enormous wealth. This ten-
ducat gold coin was struck by the family in 1621 for the County of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn, which they ruled from 1536 to 1806.Coin design credit:
County of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn; photographed by the
National Numismatic Collection