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1 Thaler - Frederick August
| Issuer | Nassau, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1809 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIEDRICH AUGUST HERZOG ZU NASSAU. |
| Reverse description | Central shield bearing the Nassau lion rampant — a crowned golden lion on a blue and gold barry field — surmounted by a ducal crown. The shield is flanked by a laurel branch to the left and an oak branch to the right, their sprigs tied at the base. The date 1809 appears in the exergue below the wreath. The circular legend ZEHN EINE FEINE MARK, indicating the coin's fineness standard of ten to the fine mark, arcs around the upper portion of the field within a toothed border. |
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Nassau was reorganized as a duchy under Frederick August in 1806, following Napoleon's restructuring of the German states through the Confederation of the Rhine. This thaler belongs to the first years of that new political order — struck just three years after Nassau's elevation, when the duchy was still consolidating its administrative and monetary apparatus under French imperial influence.
The .833 fineness follows the Conventionsthaler standard then being phased across the Rhenish Confederation states.