12 Kreuzers - Frederick Casimir

Frederick Casimir ruled Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1641 until his death in 1685, presiding over a county still recovering from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. The 12 Kreuzer denomination was a workhorse of the fragmented German monetary system in this period, circulating across jurisdictions that rarely agreed on standards. Hanau-Lichtenberg's issues were struck at Wolfisheim, a mint whose output was modest enough that two-year runs like this one account for the bulk of surviving material attributable to Frederick Casimir's coinage.