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1 Ducat - Eberhard Louis
| Issuer | Württemberg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1694-1696 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (3.5) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duke Eberhard Louis facing right, wearing a long curled periwig rendered in fine relief. The effigy is depicted with an armored cuirass visible at the truncation. A Latin legend encircles the bust within a milled border, reading EBERL·LID· D·G· DVX·WIRT· |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Eberhard Louis became Duke of Württemberg in 1693 at age nine, under the regency of his mother and then his uncle Friedrich Carl. These ducats, struck across a three-year window during that regency period, were issued as the duchy navigated the tail end of the Nine Years' War — French forces under Villars had ravaged Württemberg in 1693, burning Stuttgart's suburbs and extracting ruinous contributions. That a gold issue appeared at all in 1694 speaks more to diplomatic necessity and court prestige than to any recovered fiscal health.