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6 Kreuzers - Philip August Frederick
| Issuer | Hessen-Homburg, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1840 |
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| Currency | Gulden |
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| Obverse lettering | LANDGRAFTHUM HESSEN |
| Reverse description | Denomination expressed in two lines as '6 / KREUZER' above the date '1840', all enclosed within a wreath of oak branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The wreath is rendered in fine detail with individual leaves and acorns, and the entire design is framed by a pearled border. |
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Hessen-Homburg was one of the smallest sovereign states in the German Confederation, with a population that never exceeded roughly 25,000. Philip August Frederick, who acceded in 1839, ruled this pocket-sized landgraviate for barely three years before his death in 1846. The coinage output under his name is correspondingly thin, making any surviving piece a narrow documentary window into one of the Confederation's most minor minting authorities.
KM#15 was struck in billon at a silver content too low to carry meaningful intrinsic value — functional small change for a state too modest to sustain a proper silver coinage.