1 Ducat - Frederick Alexander

Wied-Neuwied was a tiny Rhenish county of the Holy Roman Empire whose rulers held minting rights largely as a matter of prestige — actual monetary need could have been served by neighboring issues. Frederick Alexander, who governed from 1737 to 1791, struck very few gold pieces, and the 1744 ducat is among the scarcest. Fr#2520 appears in Friedberg with only the briefest notice, a reliable indicator that surviving examples were never numerous to begin with.