1 Ducat - Maximilian Joseph Ernest

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.