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1 Ducat - Maximilian Joseph Ernest
| Issuer | Montfort-Peggau, County of |
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| Year | 1735-1745 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Count Ernest of Montfort facing right, wearing elaborate plate armor with decorative ornamentation and a flowing wig in the baroque style. The mintmaster's initials 'IH' appear below the truncation as a mint official's mark. A circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, interrupted by the bust. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail typical of 18th-century German gold coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Montfort-Peggau was a tiny Austrian county whose coinage rights were exercised by Maximilian Joseph Ernest during a period when the Holy Roman Empire was still tolerating — if increasingly scrutinizing — the autonomous minting privileges of minor lords. The county itself was a remnant jurisdiction, geographically insignificant, and its gold ducat issues were almost certainly struck in small numbers for ceremonial or diplomatic purposes rather than commercial circulation.
KM#158 is poorly documented in terms of individual mintage figures, which is itself telling for a county of this scale.