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1/4 Carolin - Ernest Louis
| Uitgever | Hesse-Darmstadt |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1733 |
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| Waarde | 1/4 Carolin (2.5) |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
| Opschrift voorzijde | ERNEST LVD D G HASS LANDG PR HERSF G K |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt spent the last decades of his reign in near-constant financial distress, having bankrupted his court through extravagant building projects and an obsessive patronage of arts and alchemy. The 1733 gold issues were struck in the final year of his life, when the Landgraviate's treasury was under severe strain — making small-denomination gold fractions like this quarter Carolin a practical necessity for day-to-day court transactions rather than prestige issues.
The Carolin itself was a denomination tied to the broader South German gold coinage system, nominally valued at 10 Gulden and regulated under imperial convention. Hesse-Darmstadt's fractional issues in this metal are notably scarce in surviving inventories.