weight 5,27gr. | silver Ø 24mm.
With part in hair right / Kopf mit Scheitel.
The date 1866 has been altered from 1865.
Seems to be unpublished. Very rare as such.
Ludwig II or Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm was born on 25 August 1845 as oldest son of king Maximilian II. After the death of Maximilian II in 1864, the 18 years old Ludwig II succeeded his father as king of Bavaria. Two years later Bavaria was effectively subjugated by Prussia, and subsequently absorbed into the German Empire. Ludwig remained King of Bavaria, but largely ignored such state affairs as remained to Bavaria in favor of extravagant artistic and architectural projects. He commissioned the construction of two lavish palaces and the Neuschwanstein Castle, and was a devoted patron of the composer Richard Wagner. The greatest stress of Ludwig′s early reign was pressure to produce an heir, but Ludwig never married nor had any known mistresses. It is known from his diary (which began in the 1860s), private letters, and other surviving personal documents that he had strong homosexual desires. Athough homosexuality had not been punishable in Bavaria since 1813 in intensely Catholic and socially conservative 19th-century Bavaria, the scandal of a homosexual monarch would have been intolerable.
He is sometimes called the Swan King (English) and der Märchenkönig, the Fairy Tale King (English). He also held the titles of Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia, and Duke in Swabia. Ludwig spent all the royal revenues (although not state funds) on extravagant artistic and architectural projects, borrowed extensively, and defied all attempts by his ministers to restrain him. This was used against him to declare him insane, and on 10 June a government commission decided to place the king in custody. His uncle, prince Luitpold, was appointed to take over government as the ruling Prince Regent. On the afternoon of the 13 June 1886, Dr. Gudden accompanied Ludwig on a stroll in the grounds of Berg Castle. They were escorted by two attendants. Following dinner, at around 6 pm, Ludwig asked Gudden to accompany him on a further walk, this time through the Schloß Berg parkland along the shore of Lake Starnberg. The two men were last seen at about 6:30 pm they were due back at 8 pm, but never returned. After searches were made for more than two hours by the entire castle staff in a gale with heavy rain, at 10:30 pm that night, the bodies of both the King and von Gudden were found, head and shoulders above the shallow water near the shore. The King′s watch had stopped at 6:54. Ludwig′s death was officially ruled a suicide by drowning, but the official autopsy report indicated that no water was found in his lungs. Ludwig was a very strong swimmer in his youth, the water was approximately waist deep where his body was found, and he had not expressed suicidal feelings during the crisis. Gudden′s body showed blows to the head and neck and signs of strangulation, leading to the suspicion that he was strangled, although no other evidence was found to prove this. It is clearly that Ludwig has been murdered by his enemies. The accusation of insanity has since been refuted. A sad end of this ʺFairy Tale King ʺ. Ludwig is generally well-regarded and even revered by many Bavarians today. His legacy of architecture and art includes many of Bavaria′s important tourist attractions.
KM.866var. | Jaeger 99var. | AKS.179var. RR
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