4 Kreuzers - Louis IX

Hanau-Lichtenberg's coinage authority in 1759 was exercised under Landgrave Louis IX, who would later gain far greater historical notoriety as the principal supplier of Hessian troops to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War — a transaction that netted him enormous revenue but blackened his reputation for generations. The county's small silver issues of this period reflect a functioning if modest fiscal apparatus, still operating independently before the pressures of the Seven Years' War fully reorganized the political economy of the minor German states.