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1 Ducat - Charles Alexander of Lothringen
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1765 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Charles Alexander of Lorraine facing right, wearing a cuirass and the cross of the Teutonic Order at the neck. The hair is elaborately curled and dressed in the fashion of the period. The legend encircles the effigy, divided on either side of the bust, reading D. G. CAROL. ALE. to the left and DUX LOTH. ET BAR. to the right. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine engraving detail characteristic of 18th-century German goldsmith work. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles Alexander of Lorraine served as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1761 until his death in 1780, a largely ceremonial role by that point — the Order had been stripped of its military function and most of its Prussian territories by the 1525 secularization under Albert of Brandenburg. By the mid-eighteenth century, its remaining holdings in the Holy Roman Empire were administered more as a noble estate than a crusading institution, and coinage like this ducat functioned primarily as a prestige issue rather than circulating currency.
Charles Alexander was simultaneously Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands, a appointment held concurrently with his Teutonic mastership through Habsburg family arrangement.