3 Kreuzers - Louis I

Louis I came to the Bavarian throne in 1825 inheriting a coinage system still settling after the monetary reforms his father Maximilian I had pushed through in the early part of the century. The 3 Kreuzer occupied a genuinely practical slot in everyday commerce — too small to be hoarded, too necessary to ignore — which is precisely why survivors in any condition above Fine are rarer than the four-year window of issue might suggest.

The .333 fineness places this squarely in billon territory, silver by courtesy more than chemistry.