1 Kreuzer - Henri I 'H' with ducal crowns

Neuchâtel's monetary situation in the late sixteenth century was genuinely complicated: the duchy changed hands repeatedly through inheritance and dynastic maneuvering, and Henri I of Orléans-Longueville — who held the county from 1564 until his death in 1595 — issued coinage under persistent jurisdictional tension with the Swiss Confederation and the Bishop of Basel. The billon kreuzer was the workhorse denomination of small local commerce, and surviving examples in any condition are scarce given how thoroughly they circulated in a region with no shortage of competing small change from neighboring territories.