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2 Kreuzers - Louis IX
| Issuer | Hanau-Lichtenberg, County of |
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| Year | 1759 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | H. D. H. L. |
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| Mintage | 1759 |
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Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt held the Hanau-Lichtenberg county through inheritance, and by 1759 the Seven Years' War was grinding through the very territories these coins were meant to serve. Small billon issues like this one filled a chronic gap in everyday transaction currency — larger silver production was under strain, and the German petty states relied on fractional coinage to keep local markets functioning at all. Hanau-Lichtenberg was formally absorbed into Hesse-Darmstadt the following decade, making Louis IX the last count under whose name this series was struck.