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1 Ducat - Frederick William I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Prussia |
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| Year | 1733 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIED • WILH • D • G • REX BOR • EL • BR • |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Frederick William I famously despised luxury and ceremonial expenditure, yet his mint continued producing gold ducats throughout his reign largely for diplomatic gift-giving and trade purposes rather than domestic circulation. The Prussian ducat circulated more actively in the Baltic and Polish trading networks than within Brandenburg-Prussia itself.
The Olding 320 reference places this among a tightly documented series; v.Schrötter's cataloguing identified meaningful die variations across the 1733 issues from the Berlin mint.