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1 Gulden - Frederick Casimir
| Issuer | Hanau-Lichtenberg, County of |
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| Year | 1668 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Frederick Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg, facing right, wearing a cuirass partially visible beneath a heavily curled long wig rendered in fine detail. The effigy is portrayed in the baroque court style typical of late 17th-century German principality coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait, reading continuously around the beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID:CAS:COM:HAN:RH:BIP:DN:MVNTZENB |
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Frederick Casimir ruled Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1641 until his death in 1685, navigating the county through the long aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, which had left much of the Alsatian and Rhenish territories economically devastated. This gulden was struck more than two decades into his reign, at a moment when the county's silver coinage was helping to reconstruct a functioning local economy. Hanau-Lichtenberg's geographic split — territories straddling both sides of the Rhine — created persistent administrative complications for currency circulation. The Suchier reference remains the authoritative catalog for this county's coinage.