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2 Thalers - Frederick William I
| Issuer | Electorate of Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1851-1855 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1841-1866) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 THALER VII EINE F.MARK 3 1/2 GULDEN VEREINS 18 55 MÜNZE |
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Hesse-Cassel's Frederick William I ruled under one of the most reactionary regimes in German-speaking Europe during the 1850s, a period so politically fraught that his own minister-president Ludwig Hassenpflug — despised enough to earn the nickname "Hessian-Plague" — had to be reinstated by Austrian and Prussian troops after the electorate's parliament refused to seat him. The coinage of this period was struck against a backdrop of near-constant constitutional crisis; Frederick William had suspended the liberal constitution of 1831 and governed largely by decree.
The 2 Thaler denomination was a product of the Dresden Convention of 1838, which standardized the relationship between the North German Thaler and South German Gulden coinage systems. Hesse-Cassel's participation was characteristic of the small states clinging to monetary agreements as political ones frayed around them.