9 Grote - William Gustav Frederick

Knyphausen was a tiny lordship on the North Sea coast, and by 1807 its days of autonomous coinage were effectively numbered. The Dominion had passed to the Bentinck family in the eighteenth century, and William Gustav Frederick — the issuing authority named here — ruled under increasingly fragile sovereignty as Napoleonic reorganization swallowed the small states of northwestern Germany one by one. This issue was struck just as the Continental System was disrupting regional trade and the Kingdom of Westphalia was absorbing neighboring territories.

Knyphausen itself was annexed by France in 1810, making 1807 among the final years of independent coinage from this lordship.