1 Kreuzer - Louis I

Baden's copper kreuzer coinage of the early 1820s was produced at the Karlsruhe mint during a period when the German states were navigating the monetary fragmentation left by Napoleon's reorganization of central Europe. Louis I had inherited a Baden considerably enlarged by French favor, and the small copper issues of his reign circulated across a territory that had nearly tripled in size within living memory — which meant these coins passed through communities that had used entirely different monetary systems just a decade prior.