20 Kreuzers - Mary of Nemours

Mary of Nemours inherited Neuchâtel in 1694 following the death of her brother Henri II d'Orléans-Longueville, the last male heir of a line that had held the principality since 1504. Her tenure was legally contested almost immediately — nine rival claimants pressed their cases before the Estates of Neuchâtel, a dispute that would drag on unresolved until her death in 1707, when the Estates ultimately awarded the principality to the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. These kreuzers, struck across just two years, are among the very few issues she managed to produce before the succession crisis consumed the administration entirely.