1 Ducat - John William II

John William II — Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz — ruled Jülich-Berg as a Catholic duke in a confessionally fractured Rhineland, and his ducats were struck at Düsseldorf during the War of the Spanish Succession, when trade routes and allegiances across the Holy Roman Empire were in active disruption. He was also Elector Palatine, and his court at Düsseldorf became one of the more ambitious artistic centers in the German lands, funded in part by revenues the coinage itself represents.

He died in 1716 without legitimate issue, triggering the Jülich-Berg succession dispute that would smolder for decades.