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6 Kreuzers - William II and Frederick William
| Issuer | Electorate of Hesse-Kassel |
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| Year | 1831-1834 |
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| Composition | Silver (.500) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | KURHESSEN |
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Hesse-Kassel's political situation in the early 1830s was unusually turbulent for a small German state. William II, deeply unpopular and effectively incapacitated by illness, was forced to accept a liberal constitution in 1831 following widespread unrest — one of the few German rulers pressured into constitutional concessions during that revolutionary wave. His son Frederick William assumed co-regency that same year, and joint-reign coinage followed almost immediately as a practical acknowledgment of the transfer of real authority.
The co-regency arrangement on the coinage is the historically distinctive element here. William II died in 1847; Frederick William had been running the state for over a decade before that.