1 Ducat - Gustav Adolphus

Gustav Adolphus of Mecklenburg-Güstrow — not to be confused with the Swedish king of the same name — ruled a duchy that had been administratively separated from Mecklenburg-Schwerin since the 1621 partition, itself a consequence of the tangled inheritance disputes that plagued the Mecklenburg line across the Thirty Years' War period. His ducal coinage was modest in output, and the three-year window of this particular ducat issue reflects the brevity of his reign, which ended with his death in 1695 — though the striking of this type ceased well before that.