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10 Kreuzers - Frederick I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Württemberg |
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| Year | 1812 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned right-facing bust of King Frederick I of Württemberg, rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail to the hair and facial features. The truncation of the bust is bare, and the engraver's initials I.L.W. appear below in the lower field. The surrounding legend reads FRID. KOENIG VON WURTEMB., interrupted at the base by the bust truncation, with lettering evenly spaced around the periphery in Latin script. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID. KOENIG VON WURTEMB. I.L.W. |
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Frederick I had secured the title of King only in 1806, a direct consequence of Napoleon's reorganization of German territories through the Confederation of the Rhine. Württemberg's coinage system was overhauled accordingly, and the kreuzer denominations of 1812 belong to this post-elevation rationalizing of the monetary system under a newly sovereign house.
The .500 fineness was deliberately low — reflecting broader German small-denomination practice of the period, where billon coinage was the practical answer to silver shortages compounded by Napoleonic war expenditure.