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1 Ducat - John Frederick II
| Issuer | Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen, County of |
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| Year | 1760 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (3.5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three oval heraldic shields arranged within an ornate crowned baroque cartouche, interlaced with the chain of a chivalric order. The date 1760 appears below the cartouche, flanked by the mint master's initial F. The composition is characteristic of late baroque German armorial design, with richly decorated mantling and crown surmounting the entire achievement. |
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John Frederick II ruled Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen during the Seven Years' War, a conflict that placed enormous financial strain on the small German counties caught between the maneuvering of Prussian and Habsburg forces. Ducats of this period from minor Franconian lordships were often struck in very small quantities — less as a circulating currency than as presentation pieces or instruments of diplomatic exchange. The county's mint rights were a jealously guarded privilege of imperial immediacy, and exercising them, however modestly, was a political act as much as an economic one.
KM#44 is sparsely documented in terms of surviving population.