3 Kreuzers - Charles Eugen

Charles Eugen became Duke of Württemberg in 1744 at age sixteen, initially under the regency of his uncle. By 1746 he was governing independently, though his reign would later become synonymous with fiscal abuse — he effectively sold military conscripts to foreign powers and taxed his subjects into repeated revolt. The Estates of Württemberg eventually forced him before the Imperial Aulic Council in 1764. These early silver kreuzers predate that constitutional crisis by nearly two decades.