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3 Kreuzers - Frederick II

Issuer Duchy of Württemberg
Year 1798
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Technique Milled
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Obverse script Latin
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Frederick II became Duke of Württemberg in 1797, just a year before this issue, inheriting a territory already under severe strain from French Revolutionary War requisitions and occupation costs. Napoleon would later elevate him to King Frederick I in 1806 — making these ducal-era small silver issues a short-lived denomination class that was superseded within a decade by an entirely restructured coinage system for the new Kingdom.

The billon fineness reflects deliberate debasement pressure common to German minor states during the 1790s, when silver reserves were drained by war indemnities.

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