3 Kreuzers - William I

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.