2 Kreuzers - Philip V

Hanau-Lichtenberg occupied an awkward position in the late sixteenth-century Rhineland — a small Protestant county caught between the ambitions of larger neighbors and the confessional tensions that would eventually ignite the Thirty Years' War. Philip V, who ruled from 1583 until his death in 1595, navigated these pressures while maintaining the county's Reformed ecclesiastical policy. The MB#2 attribution places this among the earliest documented issues of his reign, and the Saur concordance confirms a type known from only a handful of recorded specimens.