1 Ducat - Frederick William I

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.