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2 Heller - William IX
| Issuer | Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1814 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination '2' appears prominently in large numerals at the center of the field, flanked above by two small floral or cross ornaments in the upper quadrants and a single ornament below. Beneath the numeral, the inscription 'HELLER' is rendered in serifed capital letters across the center, followed by the date '1814.' on the lower register. The entire design is enclosed within a dotted inner border running along the coin's periphery, giving the reverse a clean, legible appearance typical of early nineteenth-century German state coinage. |
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William IX ruled Hesse-Cassel as Landgrave until 1803, when he was elevated to Elector — becoming Wilhelm I, Kurfürst von Hessen. The 1814 dating is therefore something of an anomaly: by that year Napoleon's dissolution of the Electorate in 1807 had already wiped the state off the map for seven years, its territory absorbed into the Kingdom of Westphalia under Jérôme Bonaparte. This coin belongs to the immediate post-Napoleonic reissue period, struck after Wilhelm I's restoration following the Congress of Vienna negotiations, yet the dies retained the older William IX titulature.