1 Frederick D'or - Frederick I

Württemberg was elevated to a kingdom by Napoleon in 1806, and Frederick I — previously duke, then elector — became its first king almost entirely through French patronage. This coin dates to just four years into that arrangement, struck while the kingdom was still formally part of the Confederation of the Rhine and contributing troops to Napoleonic campaigns. Frederick died the following year, in 1816, making issues from his reign a compressed series spanning barely a decade of royal coinage.

The Frederick d'or denomination was modeled on the Prussian Friedrich d'or, a deliberate signal of dynastic ambition by a ruler acutely aware of his borrowed legitimacy.