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5 Gulden - Louis I
| Issuer | Baden |
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| Year | 1819-1826 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1819-1837) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Grand Duke Ludwig I of Baden facing right, rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail to the hair and facial features. The portrait is closely cropped within a beaded inner border. The circular legend reads LUDWIG GROSHERZOG VON BADEN, disposed around the effigy in Latin characters. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 G 1825 |
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Baden's 5 Gulden gold pieces of this period occupy an awkward moment in German monetary history — the Congress of Vienna had just reshaped the map, and the newly elevated Grand Duchy was asserting its standing through coinage while simultaneously navigating the fragmented currency agreements that plagued the Rhenish states. The two KM varieties reflect die differences rather than policy changes; the transition between them was administrative, not political.
Louis I came to power having already governed as Margrave, and his reign saw Baden's early alignment with the monetary conventions that would eventually feed into the 1837 Munich Treaty.