1 Kreuzer - Philip V

Hanau-Lichtenberg occupied an awkward strip of territory straddling the Rhine, nominally within the Holy Roman Empire but perpetually squeezed between French ambition and Alsatian politics. Philip V, who ruled from 1585 until his death in 1599, introduced this kreuzer type amid the broader monetary confusion of the later sixteenth century, when small silver fractions were being debased by neighboring mints at an alarming rate. The county's output was modest by any measure, which explains why Suchier catalogued survivors so carefully.