1 Thaler - Charles Eugen

Charles Eugene of Württemberg ran one of the most financially reckless courts in 18th-century Germany, funding his Versailles-style ambitions at Ludwigsburg through ruinous taxation and forced military conscription — grievances his subjects eventually carried to the Imperial Aulic Council in Vienna, which ruled against him in 1764. These thalers were struck during precisely that period of forced fiscal retrenchment, when Charles Eugene was compelled to disband much of his standing army and curtail the court expenditures that had defined his first two decades of rule.

The duchy's mint at Stuttgart handled production. Charles Eugene reigned until 1793, but issues from this three-year window are meaningfully scarcer than his earlier coinage.