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1 Teston - John Reinhard
| Issuer | Hanau-Lichtenberg, County of |
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| Year | 1601-1621 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#6, Suchier#288-349 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DNS. I LIECHTE ET OCH.MAR.E.AD.A |
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John Reinhard I ruled Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1599 until his death in 1625, and his county straddled the Rhine in Alsace — a position that made it a crossroads of Reformed Protestantism and recurring imperial friction. The teston denomination itself was a French import, normalized along the Rhine frontier through decades of cross-border trade, and Hanau-Lichtenberg's adoption of it reflects the county's closer cultural orbit around Strasbourg than Frankfurt.
The wide Suchier reference range — over sixty catalogue numbers — reflects significant die variation across the two-decade span, not a single consistent type.