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1 Thaler - Frederick William
| Issuer | Nassau, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1813-1815 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Frederick William, Prince of Nassau, facing right, rendered in a neoclassical style with short cropped hair. The effigy is unadorned, with a plain truncation at the shoulder. The circumferential legend reads FRIEDRICH WILHELM FÜRST ZU NASSAU., separated from the coin's toothed border by a narrow field. A mintmaster's initial appears below the bust truncation. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Nassau's Thaler coinage of this period exists because the duchy found itself in an awkward geopolitical position — formally reorganized under French suzerainty as part of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, then scrambling to realign with the victorious allied powers after Napoleon's collapse. Frederick William's administration issued these Thalers across a window that straddles the final Napoleonic campaigns and their immediate aftermath, which explains the compressed date range. The dual Isenbeck references reflect documented die varieties between the 1813 and later strikes, not separate denominations.