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1 Kreuzer - Philip August
| Issuer | Hessen-Homburg, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1840 |
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| Weight | 0.83 g |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 KREUZER 1840 |
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| Mintage | 1840 - - 48,000 |
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Hessen-Homburg was among the smallest sovereign states to survive into the German Confederation period, covering barely 275 square kilometers with a population that never exceeded 25,000. Philip August ruled from 1839 until his death in 1846, a reign of just seven years during which the landgraviate's coinage output was minimal. The 1840 Kreuzer issue reflects a polity maintaining the forms of monetary independence it would lose entirely when the line died out — Hessen-Homburg was absorbed into Prussia in 1866 following the Austro-Prussian War.