1 Ducat - Wenzel

The Paar family held a hereditary monopoly on the Imperial postal service of the Habsburg Empire — the Generalpostmeisteramt — a privilege granted in the sixteenth century and worth an extraordinary income by the late eighteenth. Their right to strike coinage was a feudal remnant that survived well into the era of centralizing Habsburg administration, and 1794 was among the final years they exercised it. This particular ducat honors Wenzel Johann Joseph von Paar, who held the family's postal and comital dignities during this period.

KM#7 is genuinely rare by any measure of feudal Austrian coinage.