1/2 Kreuzer - Charles Eugen

Charles Eugene's long reign over Württemberg — stretching from 1737 to 1793 — was defined as much by fiscal strain as by his lavish court at Ludwigsburg. The duchy's smaller billon denominations were workhorses of everyday exchange, produced in large quantities to supply a population for whom silver coinage was largely out of reach. The billon content itself shifted across the production window as silver prices fluctuated against the duke's perpetually strained treasury.