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1 Kronenthaler - William
| Issuer | Nassau, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1831-1837 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#54, Dav GT III#743 |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of Duke Wilhelm of Nassau occupies the central field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curling hair and a truncation signed ZOLLMANN. The surrounding legend reads WILHELM HERZOG ZU NASSAU, distributed around the full circumference between an inner field and an outer beaded border. The portrait is executed in the Neoclassical style characteristic of early nineteenth-century German state coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The Nassau ducal coat of arms is displayed at center, depicting a rampant lion on a quartered shield, surmounted by a large ducal crown. Two crowned lions rampant serve as heraldic supporters on either side of the shield, each standing on a decorative platform. The denomination KRONEN THALER arcs across the upper field between the supporters and the beaded border, while the date appears in the lower exergual area beneath the shield. |
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The Kronenthaler was a supra-regional trade coin whose value was fixed by convention across multiple German states rather than by any single issuing authority — Nassau's participation in striking them reflected the monetary agreements hammered out among the Rhine Confederation successor states in the 1820s. William of Nassau-Weilburg had come to power in 1816 presiding over a duchy assembled from fractured Napoleonic-era territorial reshuffling, and the Kronenthaler issues of his later reign were among the last struck before the type was phased out across the German states by the mid-1830s Dresden Convention push toward standardized coinage.