1/4 Ducat Klippe, Silver pattern strike

Stuttgart's civic coinage of the 1740s occupied a complicated political space — the city operated under Württemberg ducal authority while maintaining residual rights to issue municipal pieces, and pattern strikes like this klippe were produced more as demonstrations of that prerogative than as circulating money. The square klippe format, archaic even by 1740, signals deliberate antiquarianism: a self-conscious reference to the emergency coinages of the Thirty Years' War a century prior.

At 0.79 g, this is among the lightest fractional klippe patterns documented from the southwest German municipal series. The Ebner and Binder references align on attribution, which is not always the case for Stuttgart civic pieces of this period.