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1/2 Thaler - Frederick August
| Issuer | Nassau, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1809 |
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| Weight | 14.03 g |
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| Reverse description | Centrally placed crowned shield bearing the Nassau lion arms, flanked by a laurel branch to the left and a palm branch to the right, tied at the base. The date 1809 appears in the lower exergual area beneath the shield. The circular legend ZWANZIG EINE FEINE MARK, indicating the fineness standard of twenty coins to the fine mark, runs along the upper periphery within a toothed border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZWANZIG EINE FEINE MARK. 1809 |
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Nassau was reorganized as a unified duchy in 1806 under the Confederation of the Rhine, consolidating what had been a patchwork of independent Nassau lines into a single Napoleonic client state. Frederick August, who had governed Nassau-Usingen, became the first ruler of this reconstituted entity. The 1809 coinage was among the earliest issued under the new ducal authority, establishing a monetary identity for a polity that had existed in its current form for barely three years.