1 Ducat - William VIII

William VIII ruled Hanau-Münzenberg from 1726 until his death in 1760, a tenure complicated by the county's position as a Protestant enclave surrounded by competing territorial interests in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire. Hanau-Münzenberg maintained its own mint rights jealously — gold ducats of this period served diplomatic and commercial functions well beyond the county's modest borders, circulating in Frankfurt trade networks where the Rhine valley's merchant class demanded hard specie.

Schütz III#1747 is among the better-documented issues of William's reign, though die marriages for this type remain incompletely catalogued.