1 Ducat - Ferdinand Maria

Ferdinand Maria became Elector of Bavaria in 1651 following his father Maximilian I's death, inheriting a territory economically gutted by the Thirty Years' War. The ducat series spanning 1655–1671 was struck against a backdrop of slow fiscal recovery, with Bavaria attempting to reassert itself as a credible monetary power in the fragmented post-Westphalian German states. The Munich mint was the sole production facility throughout this run.

Fr#202 in Friedberg's gold coinage reference places this squarely in a well-documented but not abundant type. Survivors in anything above well-circulated grades are infrequent — these moved through trade channels actively.