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1/2 Kreuzer - William II
| Issuer | Upper Hesse, Province of |
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| Year | 1824-1830 |
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| Value | 1/2 Kreuzer (1⁄384) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the Hessian lion rampant to sinister, surmounted by an ornate Electoral crown. The legend KUR HESSEN arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering, with the entire design enclosed within a beaded border. The shield is rendered in a plain unadorned style typical of early nineteenth-century German provincial coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Upper Hesse was a Prussian administrative province, not a sovereign state, yet it issued distinctive copper small change under its own provincial identity throughout the 1820s. This was a transitional oddity of the post-Napoleonic German territorial reorganization — Prussia absorbed Hessian territories but allowed localized coinage to persist briefly before standardization swept it away.
KM#581 is among the last issues before Prussia consolidated its currency across the Rhine provinces and Westphalia in the early 1830s.