1840, Kingdom of Bavaria, Ludwig I. Silver 1 Gulden Coin.
Mint Year: 1840 Reference: KM-788. Mint Place: Munich Denomination: 1 Gulden Condition: Light deposits, otherwise a nicely toned VF+ Material: Silver (.900) Weight: 10.59gm Diameter: 30mm
Obverse: Bust of Louis I (Ludwig I) of Bavaria right. Designer's signature (G. VOIGT) below bust truncation. Legend: LUDWIG I KOENIG VON BAYERN
Reverse: Value (1) above denomination (GULDEN) and date (1840). All within wreath.
Ludwig I (also rendered in English as Louis I) ( 25 August 1786 in Strasbourg – 29 February 1868 in Nice) was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states.
He was the son of Count Palatine Maximilian Joseph of Zweibrücken by his first wife Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. At the time of his birth, his father was an officer in the French army stationed at Strasbourg. He was the godson and namesake of Louis XVI of France. On 1 April 1795 his father succeeded Ludwig's uncle, Charles II, as duke of Zweibrücken, and on 16 February 1799 became Elector of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Arch-Steward of the Empire, and Duke of Berg on the extinction of the Sulzbach line with the death of the elector Charles Theodore. His father assumed the title of King of Bavaria on 1 January 1806.