1 Ducat - Leopold William

Murbach and Lüders were twin Alsatian abbeys administered jointly, and by 1635 their coining rights were exercised under Leopold William of Austria, younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand III, who held the abbacy in commendam — a common Habsburg practice of parking lucrative ecclesiastical offices with junior dynastic members rather than resident clergy. The Thirty Years' War was grinding through its seventeenth year, and Alsace was actively contested terrain.

KM# 10 is a scarce type. Ducats from this abbatial mint appear infrequently at auction, a function of both limited original production and the abbey's suppression long before systematic numismatic collecting began.