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20 Kreuzers - Frederick William
| Issuer | Nassau, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1809-1810 |
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| Currency | Conventionsthaler (1806-1837) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau, facing right, rendered in a neoclassical style with naturalistic hair. The truncation is unadorned. The encircling legend reads FRIEDRICH WILHELM FÜRST ZU NASSAU., with a period stop at the conclusion. A small mintmaster's initial L appears below the bust truncation. The coin's milled border frames the design. |
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| Reverse description | The crowned shield of Nassau arms, bearing a golden lion rampant to the left on a barry field, is centered in the field with the date 1809 divided on either side of the shield at mid-height. The denomination numeral (20), enclosed in parentheses, appears below the shield in the lower field. The encircling legend 60 STUCK EINE FEINE MARK, indicating the coin's fineness standard of 60 pieces to the fine mark, runs along the upper periphery within the milled border. |
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Nassau was reorganized as a unified duchy in 1806 under Napoleonic pressure, consolidating a patchwork of previously separate Nassau territories into a single state under Frederick William. The 20 Kreuzer issue of 1809–1810 belongs to the duchy's earliest coinage as a rationalized entity, struck while the region was still adjusting its administrative and monetary infrastructure to the Confederation of the Rhine's demands. The multiple Isenbeck references — 81 and 84 — indicate documented die varieties between the two years, a detail worth attention when attributing individual examples.