1 Ducat - Wolfgang Julius

Wolfgang Julius ruled Hohenlohe-Neuenstein as count from 1676 until his death in 1698, making this 1697 ducat one of the last coins struck under his authority. The Hohenlohe territories were a patchwork of small lordships in Franconia that repeatedly subdivided through inheritance, producing a profusion of short-lived issuing authorities — and correspondingly low-mintage coinage at each partition. Ducats from the county's various lines are scarce precisely because the fiscal scale of these micro-territories rarely justified gold production in quantity.

The .986 fineness conforms to the long-established ducat standard that held across the Holy Roman Empire for centuries.