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Double Gold Leopold - Leopold I
| Issuer | Duchy of Lorraine |
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| Year | 1724-1725 |
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| Currency | Pound of Lorraine (1700-1737) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Nancy |
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Leopold I of Lorraine spent much of his reign navigating the suffocating diplomatic pressure of Versailles, having only recovered his duchy in 1698 after nearly two decades of French occupation following the Nine Years' War. The double gold issue of 1724–25 belongs to the last years of his rule — he died in March 1729 — when Lorraine still functioned as a nominally sovereign state, though French influence over its monetary and political affairs had never fully receded.
The Fr#159 designation places this among Frossard's documented Lorraine gold, with KM#129.1 distinguishing the earlier die pairing in what appears to have been a short-lived two-year production run.