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1 Ducat - Frederick Charles
| Issuer | Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg-Plön, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1760 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1625-1761) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Friedrich Karl facing right, wearing elaborate plate armor with decorative shoulder guards and a sash, his hair curled in the fashion of the period. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail on the military attire. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait, naming the ruler with his full ducal titles. The legend reads continuously around the periphery of the coin field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg-Plön ruled one of the smallest and most financially marginal of the Holstein cadet duchies, a patchwork of German territories whose ducal lines were perpetually entangled with Danish royal succession politics. By 1760, the duchy's independent coinage was already an anachronism — the minting of gold ducats at this scale was less about circulation than about asserting dynastic standing in a political environment where that standing was increasingly precarious. Frederick Charles died in 1779 without male heirs, and the Plön line was extinguished shortly after.