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1 Ducat - Charles Theodore Donaugold-Dukat
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1798 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (1 Dukat) (3.5) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1798 - MDCCXCVIII |
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The Donaugold ("Danube gold") ducats of Bavaria are among the more unusual late-18th-century issues: they were struck specifically from alluvial gold recovered from the Isar and Danube river systems, a source Bavaria had exploited intermittently since the medieval period. The designation was both a guarantee of local provenance and, under Charles Theodore, something of a political statement about Bavarian resources at a moment when the Electorate was increasingly squeezed between French revolutionary pressure and Habsburg interference.
Charles Theodore himself was widely despised — his reign marked by chronic indecisiveness and the near-cession of Bavaria to Austria in 1778. By 1798 he had less than a year to live.