1 Ducat - Sigismund Ludwig

The Dietrichstein family held their Moravian lordship as a mediate territory within the Habsburg system, which granted them the right to strike coinage — a privilege jealously guarded and increasingly curtailed by Vienna throughout the mid-seventeenth century. Sigismund Ludwig, Count of Dietrichstein, exercised this right during a period when the Thirty Years' War and its immediate aftermath had fractured central European monetary order badly enough that local noble coinages still found practical circulation.

KM#8 ducats of this type are scarce survivors from a mint operating under political pressure and without the output volume of sovereign houses.