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2 Ducats - Ulrich
| Issuer | Württemberg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1513 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1495-1802) |
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| Reverse description | The quartered arms of Württemberg, comprising the three stag antlers and the three diagonal bars, displayed on an ornately decorated heraldic shield occupying the central field. Above the shield rise two elaborately plumed and decorated tournament helmets with crests, rendered in fine Renaissance style. The date 1513 is divided in the upper margin flanking the helmets. The surrounding Latin legend, split across both sides of the coin, reads MON. NO. AR - GENT. STVG`., denoting the new money of Stuttgart. |
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| Reverse lettering | MON. NO. AR - GENT. STVG`. |
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Duke Ulrich of Württemberg was among the most turbulent rulers of early sixteenth-century Germany — expelled by the Swabian League in 1519, just six years after this piece was struck, he spent fifteen years in exile before reclaiming the duchy with Hessian and French military support in 1534. The 1513 date places this coin squarely in Ulrich's early reign, before the political catastrophes that would define him.
Double ducats of this period from Württemberg are genuinely rare survivors. The duchy's gold coinage was never prolific, and pieces from Ulrich's pre-exile years circulated in a region soon to be administratively dismembered.