1 Kreuzer

Nuremberg lost its status as a Free Imperial City just four years after this coin was struck, annexed by Bavaria in 1806 under Napoleon's reshaping of German territories. By 1798 the city's finances were already severely strained — chronic debt accumulated over decades of declining trade had forced repeated debasements of the local coinage, which explains the billon composition at a weight that offered minimal intrinsic value. The Kreuzer circulated in a monetary environment increasingly dominated by larger territorial coinages.