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1 Albus - William VII squared year
| Issuer | Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1670 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Crowned script initial W of Landgrave William VII of Hesse-Cassel, rendered without crown loops, centrally positioned in the field. The four digits of the date 1670 are arranged in a squared formation around the monogram, one numeral at each corner. Flanking palm branches in low relief adorn either side of the central device, lending a decorative heraldic character to the composition. The coin displays a plain inner field with no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse description | The rampant Hessian lion passant-rampant occupies the central field, rendered in the traditional heraldic style with detailed mane and raised forepaw, facing dexter. The lion is crowned and depicted with a bifurcated tail curling behind the body. A mint mark appears below the lion in the lower field. The coin's border is defined by a plain inner circle, with no surrounding legend present on this face. |
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The "squared year" variety — where the final digit of the date appears in a rotated or blocked form due to a damaged or improvised punch — is a known die curiosity in smaller German territorial issues of the late seventeenth century, where die cutting was often contracted to local craftsmen working without strict oversight from a central mint authority. Hesse-Cassel's minting operations under William VII were intermittent, and the Schütz reference dash indicating an unlisted or unpriced example suggests surviving specimens are too scarce to have established a reliable market baseline.