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5 Kreuzer - Eberhard Louis
| Issuer | Württemberg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1726-1731 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the quartered arms of Württemberg surmounted by an ornate ducal crown, the shield elaborately decorated and set within a cartouche with foliate mantling. The legend encircles the central device, reading EBERH·LUD·D·G·DUX·WURTEMB·ET·TEC, identifying Duke Eberhard Louis by name and title. The coin features a fine milled border of radiating denticles running along the rim. The overall composition follows the baroque heraldic style typical of early eighteenth-century south German coinage. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Eberhard Louis spent much of his reign financing the construction of Ludwigsburg Palace and maintaining a court modeled on Versailles — an extravagance that repeatedly strained Württemberg's treasury. Small silver issues of this type circulated alongside a currency system perpetually under pressure from the duke's building ambitions and his costly participation in the War of the Spanish Succession.
KM#309 spans a six-year production window, suggesting steady if unspectacular demand rather than a single emergency striking.