1 Kreuzer - Henri II

Henri II de Bourbon-Condé held Neuchâtel through a prolonged legal and political dispute over succession rights that dragged through much of his tenure, with the principality functioning as a semi-autonomous enclave despite nominal French overlordship. Small billon issues like this one served the immediate needs of local markets where larger denominations were functionally useless for daily exchange — though the debased silver content of billon coinage made them unpopular enough that hoarding was rare and circulated survivors are the rule rather than the exception.