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1/4 Ducat - Christian Ulrich von Bernstadt Death
| Issuer | Württemberg-Oels, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1680 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Anna Elisabeth, consort of the Duke of Württemberg-Oels, facing right, with softly curled hair and a pearl necklace at the throat, wearing a lace-trimmed décolleté dress. The effigy is rendered in baroque style with fine detail, surrounded by a circular Latin legend reading ANN. ELISAB. D. W. O. P. B. The reverse portrait is similarly composed to the obverse, reflecting the commemorative dual-portrait format common to German memorial ducats of the period. |
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Christian Ulrich von Bernstadt was the founder of the Bernstadt line of the fragmented Württemberg-Oels duchy, a principality so thoroughly subdivided by inheritance that its coinage frequently served dynastic commemoration as much as any commercial purpose. This death piece — a Sterbemünze in the German tradition — was struck to mark his passing in 1680, part of a mourning issue series that smaller German courts used to assert hereditary legitimacy and princely prestige in the fractious post-Westphalian political order. The Friedberg reference traces this specific fraction to a tiny production run.