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1 Ducat - Frederick William I
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1717-1718 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | FRID•WILH•D• G•REX•BORVSS•EL•B• L |
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Frederick William I had little patience for the ceremonial excesses of his father's court, and the ducats struck in his name during 1717–18 reflect the stripped-down fiscal priorities of a king who famously melted down silver furniture to pay his army. Prussia's gold coinage of this period was minted in extremely limited quantities — the king distrusted gold as a medium of domestic exchange and preferred hard thaler silver for internal commerce. Ducats served almost exclusively as diplomatic gifts and military payments to foreign contractors.
KM#162 is known with minor die variations across the two-year span of issue.