3 Kreuzers - Charles Theodor

Charles Theodore became Elector Palatine in 1743 at age seventeen, the same year this coin was struck. The Palatinate's minting activity in this period was centered at Mannheim, where Charles Theodore would later build one of the most culturally ambitious courts in the Holy Roman Empire — though in 1743 that future was hardly legible in a workaday silver 3 Kreuzer.

KM#312 is among the earliest issues of his sixty-year reign, which eventually extended to Bavaria following the extinction of the Wittelsbach-Munich line in 1777.