2 Stüber - Frederick William III

East Frisia's days as a Prussian province were already numbered when this piece was struck. Napoleon's reorganization of northern Germany saw the territory transferred to the Kingdom of Holland in 1806, ending Hohenzollern administration after barely three decades of Prussian rule — Prussia had only acquired the region upon the extinction of the Cirksena dynasty in 1744. The 1804 date places this coin in the final window of Prussian-issued coinage for the territory.

Billon issues of this type circulated alongside a chaotic mixture of Dutch, French, and remnant local coinage during the Napoleonic period, and attrition was high.