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1 Albus - Charles
| Issuer | Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1723-1729 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Cassel Mint |
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Charles I of Hesse-Cassel ruled during a period of chronic fiscal strain, having inherited debts from the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. The albus was a traditional Rhenish small silver denomination with roots in the 14th century — by the 1720s it was an archaic unit kept alive largely by regional commercial habit rather than any rational monetary planning. Hesse-Cassel continued striking it while simultaneously leasing troops to foreign powers, a practice that would become the landgraviate's defining financial strategy throughout the 18th century.