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1/2 Kreuzer - William II and Frederick William
| Issuer | Electorate of Hesse-Kassel |
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| Year | 1834 |
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| Value | 1/2 Kreuzer (1⁄384) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the crowned shield of Hesse-Kassel bearing the lion of Hesse passant on a horizontally striped field, surmounted by an electoral crown rendered in fine detail. The curved legend KUR HESSEN arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin capitals. A fine beaded border encircles the entire design. |
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| Mintage | 1834 |
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Hesse-Kassel's coinage of the 1830s was issued under the joint reign convention recognizing both the sitting Elector and his heir — an arrangement that reflected dynastic anxiety more than administrative necessity. William II was by then effectively sidelined by mental incapacity, with actual governance increasingly handled by Frederick William, who would formally succeed as Frederick William I in 1847.
KM#593 is a minor copper piece from a small electorate that would cease to exist entirely in 1866, when Prussia annexed Hesse-Kassel following its support for Austria in the Austro-Prussian War.