2 Ducats - Ulrich

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.