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1 Ducat - Charles III
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1712-1718 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length effigy of the crowned monarch standing facing right, holding a scepter in his right hand and an orb in his left; the C-H mintmark appears in the field on either side of the figure. The effigy breaks through the encircling inner pearl border at both the head and feet. The outer legend, commencing at the monarch's head, reads CAROLVS and continues in Latin abbreviation around the coin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles III of Habsburg — known as Charles VI as Holy Roman Emperor — secured the Hungarian throne following the turbulent Rákóczi uprising, which had devastated the kingdom's finances and disrupted mint operations for nearly a decade. The resumption of regular ducat coinage after 1711 was as much a political signal as an economic one: Hungarian estates had conditionally accepted Habsburg rule, and gold coinage bearing Charles's authority was part of reasserting that legitimacy through tangible, circulating objects.
Hungarian ducats of this period were struck at Kremnitz, the most productive gold mint in the Habsburg system, drawing on ore from the rich Carpathian deposits that had made Hungary the premier gold-producing region in medieval Europe.