1 Ducat - John Frederick II

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.