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1 Kronenthaler - William I
| Issuer | Württemberg, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1834-1837 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1824-1872) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg, rendered in high relief with finely engraved hair curls and strong classical portraiture. The truncation of the bust is visible at the lower portion of the coin. A circular legend in Latin script surrounds the portrait, with a beaded inner border separating the effigy from the legend. The mint initial 'W.' appears below the truncation. |
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| Edge | Lettered: FURCHTLOS |
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The Kronenthaler was not a Württemberg invention but an inherited monetary unit, originally struck in the Austrian Netherlands in the 1750s and subsequently adopted across southern German states because it traded at a reliable premium in the Levant trade. By William I's reign, the type was already archaic — the German monetary reform debates of the 1830s were actively pushing toward standardization under the emerging Süddeutscher Münzverein, which would render the Kronenthaler obsolete within a generation.
These pieces were struck at the Stuttgart mint across a narrow four-year window before the convention coinage displaced them entirely.