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3 Kreuzers - William
| Issuer | Nassau, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1831-1836 |
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| Currency | Conventionsthaler (1806-1837) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | HERZOGTHUM NASSAU |
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Nassau's 3 Kreuzer issues of this period reflect the duchy's position within the German monetary confusion preceding the Dresden Convention of 1838, which finally imposed uniform coinage standards across the German states. William I had acceded to the duchy in 1816 after the Napoleonic reorganization consolidated several Nassau lines, and his administration's billon coinage served the lower-denomination commerce of a small but commercially active Rhenish state. The .281 fineness places this squarely in the debased minor coinage tradition common to German petty states before standardization forced their hand.