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1 Kreuzer - Ferdinand
| Issuer | Würzburg, Grand Duchy of |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Weight | 0.50 g |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the quartered arms of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg — displaying the crowned Frankish rake and the crossed bishop's crosiers — surmounted by a princely crown. The initials G. W. L. M. (Grand Duke Ferdinand of Würzburg, in Latin: Großherzog von Würzburg, Landgraf in Meranien) arc around the upper field, flanking the crown to left and right. The composition is plain and heraldic in style, characteristic of early 19th-century German minting. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Grand Duchy of Würzburg existed for barely a decade — created by Napoleon in 1806 for his brother-in-law Ferdinand of Tuscany and dissolved after the Congress of Vienna returned it to Bavaria in 1814. This kreuzer belongs to that narrow window of Napoleonic reorganization, when centuries-old ecclesiastical territories were being redrawn as secular client states. Ferdinand had previously ruled Tuscany and would go on to rule it again; Würzburg was an interlude, and its coinage reflects a minting program that knew, at some level, it wouldn't last long.