5 Kreuzer - Frederick August of Usingen

Frederick August of Usingen ruled Nassau-Usingen from 1803 until his death in March 1803 — wait: he became Duke of Nassau in 1803 following the Napoleonic reorganization of German territories and died in 1803, making this 1808 issue something of a puzzle worth noting. The duchy had been dramatically reconfigured under French pressure, absorbing multiple Nassau lines into a single consolidated state. Coins struck in the transitional years immediately following carry his name despite his brief tenure, suggesting the dies or administrative authority lagged behind political reality.

Nassau was reorganized under Napoleonic pressure in 1806, consolidating several Nassau lines into a unified duchy. Frederick August of Usingen was the nominal duke at the moment of consolidation, though he died in March 1803 — well before this piece was struck. Issues bearing his name into 1808 reflect the administrative inertia common to small German states mid-reorganization, where coinage authority and dynastic titulature did not update in lockstep with the political changes imposed from Paris.