See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

6 Kreuzers - Frederick VII Magnus

Issuer Baden-Durlach, Margraviate of
Year 1677-1709
Type Standard circulation coin
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering FRID.MAG.M.Z.BAD.V.HOCH
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage Log in to see details
Additional information

Frederick VII Magnus ruled Baden-Durlach from 1677 until his death in 1709, navigating the margraviate through some of its most destructive decades — French forces under Turenne and later Villars repeatedly ravaged the upper Rhine territories, with Durlach itself burned in 1689 during the Nine Years' War. Coinage continuity across this reign is remarkable given how thoroughly the region's infrastructure was disrupted.

Wielandt's cataloguing of this type places it firmly within a local emission policy that persisted despite the margraviate's limited minting capacity and frequent reliance on neighboring facilities.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE