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1 Thaler - Frederick August
| Issuer | Duchy of Nassau |
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| Year | 1809 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of Friedrich August, Duke of Nassau, rendered in high relief with naturalistically detailed hair falling to the nape of the neck. The portrait is set within a wide, open field with no inner circle. The circumferential legend reads FRIEDRICH AUGUST HERZOG ZU NASSAU., in Roman capital letters, with a period stop at the conclusion. The milled border frames the design with a fine toothed edge. |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Nassau's 1809 Thaler was struck in the immediate aftermath of the duchy's reorganization under the Confederation of the Rhine, which had dissolved the old Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg lines and consolidated them under Frederick August just two years prior. The coin was issued into a German monetary environment still adjusting to Napoleonic political reordering, with French influence pressing hard on sovereign coinage prerogatives across the Rhine states.
Frederick August died in 1803 — making any coin bearing his name and dated 1809 a posthumous issue struck under the authority of his successor, Frederick William, using a regnal attribution that requires careful attention to the duchy's transitional administrative records.