1 Kreuzer - Philip August

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.