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1 Goldgulden - William VI
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1652 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse lettering | VELA VENTIS HIS LEVANTUR |
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| Mint | Kassel Mint |
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William VI ruled Hesse-Cassel from 1637 until his death in 1663, presiding over the territory's slow reconstruction after the Thirty Years' War had left much of the Landgraviate economically devastated and its population sharply reduced. The 1652 striking falls in the early recovery period, when resuming gold coinage was itself a political signal — an assertion that Hesse-Cassel's finances had stabilized sufficiently to support specie of this fineness. William was also a committed Calvinist, and his court's fiscal policies were shaped partly by the need to repay war debts while maintaining Reformed ecclesiastical institutions.
The Schütz reference places this among a small number of documented gold issues from his reign.