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3 Kreuzers - William I
| Issuer | Württemberg, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1826-1837 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1824-1872) |
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| Reverse description | The crowned quartered coat of arms of the Kingdom of Württemberg, displayed as a spade-shaped shield surmounted by a royal crown, set within a wreath composed of oak branches on the left and laurel branches on the right, tied at the base. The circular legend SCHEIDE MÜNZE runs along the upper field, and the denomination 3.K. appears in the exergue below the wreath. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Württemberg's billon coinage of this period occupied an awkward monetary position — too debased to hoard, too necessary to ignore. William I had reorganized the kingdom's finances after the Napoleonic disruptions, and small-denomination billon pieces like this three kreuzer filled the gap left by the chronic shortage of usable subsidiary coinage across the German states in the 1820s and 30s.
The .300 fineness places this squarely in the tradition of south German petty coinage that would eventually be swept aside by the monetary unification pressures culminating in the 1837 Munich Coinage Treaty.