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20 Kreuzers - Louis IX
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1772 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Landgrave Ludwig IX facing right, with the mint official's initial below the truncation. The denomination '20 K' appears below the bust, with the entire design contained within a rhombus-shaped border. The surrounding legend reads LUDOVICUS IX D G LAND GRAVIUS HASSIÆ. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt was a militarist landlord whose most profitable enterprise was hiring out his subjects as soldiers — the Landgraviate supplied troops to France and, notoriously, to the British Crown for use in the American colonies. The 1772 date places this coin squarely in the years when those subsidy negotiations were generating hard currency for the Darmstadt treasury, silver that fed directly back into coinage production.
KM#224 is among the more frequently encountered Hesse-Darmstadt 20 Kreuzer issues, minted to the South German convention standard that governed most of the fragmented empire's silver coinage in this period.