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1 Ducat - Friedrich Casimir Kettler Mitau

Issuer Courland and Semigallia, Duchy of
Year 1689
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering MONETA · NO - VA · AVREA 8 - 9
(Translation: Moneta Nova Aurea New gold coin)
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Additional information

Friedrich Casimir Kettler ruled Courland from 1682 until his death in 1698, presiding over what was arguably the duchy's last period of genuine independence before increasing Polish-Lithuanian and Russian pressure rendered the office largely ceremonial. His ducats were struck at Mitau — the Courland capital, now Jelgava in Latvia — and reflect the duchy's determined effort to maintain the trappings of sovereign monetary authority at a moment when that sovereignty was already being quietly eroded. The 1689 date falls squarely within his reign's middle years, a period of relative fiscal stability compared to what his successors would face.

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