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1 Ducat - William IX Marriage
| Issuer | Hanau-Münzenberg, County of |
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| Year | 1764 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (3.5) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of a young noblewoman facing right, her hair elaborately dressed in the late Baroque fashion with curled locks. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the lace décolletage and drapery. A garland of flowers and foliage decorates the lower field beneath the bust. The encircling legend reads FELICIT TEMPORUM D, interrupted by the portrait, within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | FELICIT TEMPORUM D |
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Struck to commemorate the 1764 marriage of William IX of Hanau-Münzenberg — the future Landgrave Wilhelm IX of Hesse-Kassel, later notorious for leasing Hessian troops to the British during the American Revolutionary War. The County of Hanau-Münzenberg issued marriage ducats as a matter of dynastic protocol, and this piece follows that convention, but William's subsequent career gives it an ironic historical weight: the man celebrated here would later profit enormously from hired-soldier contracts, accumulating one of the largest private fortunes in Europe by 1800.