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1 Ducat - Charles
| Issuer | Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1720 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#378, Schütz IV#1501, Fr#1274a |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped bust of Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Cassel facing right, rendered in high relief with flowing long curly hair falling to the shoulder in the Baroque manner. A mintmaster's mark appears in the lower field beneath the truncation. The circumferential Latin legend reads CAROLUS D G LANDG HASSIAE PRINC HER SF, separated by pellet stops, running along the inner border of the milled rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hesse-Cassel's ducat production in the early eighteenth century was heavily entangled with the landgraviate's practice of selling soldiers — the Subsidientruppen — to foreign powers, a revenue stream that funded Charles I's court ambitions and kept the mint active through decades when many smaller German states struggled to strike gold at all. The 1720 issue falls squarely within this period of mercenary-financed prosperity.
Fr#1274a distinguishes this from closely related varieties in the Friedrich series; the Schütz reference places it within a tightly documented run where die pairing variations are known.