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3 Kreuzers - Frederick William
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Prussia, State of |
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| Year | 1666 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1618-1701) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Elector Frederick William (the Great Elector) facing right, wearing a long curled wig, within a beaded inner circle. The numeral '3', denoting the denomination, appears in a small cartouche at the base of the bust below the truncation. The peripheral legend runs clockwise around the inner circle, interrupted by the bust. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Frederick William, the "Great Elector," issued these small silver kreuzers during a period when Brandenburg-Prussia was consolidating territories and rationalizing a patchwork of inherited coinages. The kreuzer denomination was largely a southern German and Austrian convention — its appearance under a Brandenburg ruler reflects the monetary pragmatism required to facilitate trade across geographically fragmented holdings rather than any ideological preference for Rhenish accounting systems.
KM#430 is a minor type, and surviving examples almost universally show heavy wear consistent with active small commerce circulation.