1840, Baden (Grand Duchy), Leopold I. Copper Kreuzer Coin. XF-AU!

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1840, Baden (Grand Duchy), Leopold I. Copper Kreuzer Coin. XF-AU! Mint Year: 1840 Reference: KM-203.Condition: A nice XF-AU with traces of red mint lustre! Denomination: Kreuzer Material: Copper Diameter: 21mm Weight: 3.76gm Obverse: Head of Leopold I of Baden right. Legend: LEOPOLD GROSHERZOG VON BADEN Reverse: Value (1) above denomination (KREUZER) and date (1840). All within wreath.Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed . ! Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden (Karlsruhe, 29 August 1790 – Karlsruhe, 24 April 1852) succeeded in 1830 as the fourth Grand Duke of Baden.Although a younger child, Leopold was the first son of Margrave Karl Friederich of Baden by his second, morganatic wife Louise Karoline, Baroness Geyer of Geyersberg. Since Luise Karoline was not of equal birth with the Margrave, the marriage was deemed morganatic and the resulting children were incapable of inheriting their father's princely status or the sovereign rights of the Zähringen House of Baden. Luise Karoline and her children were given the titles of baron and baroness and later count or countess of Hochberg.Baden gained territory during the Napoleonic Wars. As a result, Margrave Karl Friederich was elevated to the title of Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire ( Kurfurst ). With the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, he took the title Grand Duke of Baden.Since there were plenty of descendants from Charles Frederick's first marriage to Karoline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, no one expected the Hochberg children of his second wife to be anything except a family of counts with blood ties to the grand ducal family but no dynastic rights. With no prospects of advancement in Baden, Leopold of Hochberg followed a career as an officer in the French army.Starting in 1817, events resulted in a dramatic change in the situation of the Hochberg children when it became apparent that the Baden male line descended from Karl Friederich's first wife would die out. One by one, the males of the House of Baden died without leaving male descendants. By 1817, there were only two males left, the reigning Grand Duke Charles I and his childless uncle Louis I. Both of Charles's sons died in infancy. The dynasty faced a serious succession problem.A series of agreements provided that Baden would be inherited by the Wittelsbach kings of Bavaria at the extinction of the Zähringen male line in Baden. King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria was married to Grand Duke Charles's eldest sister, Katharina Karoline. The female most closely related to the last male often inherited in such circumstances (sometimes called Semi-Salic succession). As a result, Maximilian had a strong claim to Baden under the normal rules of inheritance and various agreements added weight to his claims. Following the Congress of Vienna, a treaty of 16 April 1816 between Bavaria and Austria secured the Wittelsbach rights to Baden.To save his dynasty from extinction, Grand Duke Charles needed to find a way to preserve the Zähringen line. Granting succession rights to his half-uncles seemed the ideal solution. Accordingly, in 1817 Karl issued a new succession law under which the children of the Hochberg marriage became princes and princesses of Baden with full dynastic rights. Leopold of Hochberg became His Grand Ducal Highness, Prince Leopold of Baden and second-in-line to the throne after his remaining half-brother, Louis.In 1818, Charles granted a liberal constitution to the people of Baden. This constitution ensured the succession rights of the offspring of Louise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg. Finally, on 10 July 1819, a few months after Charles's death, the great powers (Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, and Prussia) joined with Bavaria and Baden in the Treaty of Frankfurt which recognized the succession rights of the former Hochberg morganatic line.After Grand Duke Charles died on 8 December 1818, his full-uncle (the son of Charles Frederick'... read more

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