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⅔ Thaler - Frederick II
| Uitgever | Hesse-Cassel |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1767 |
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| Vorm | Round |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | FRIDERICUS II .D.G.HASS.LANDGR.HAN.COM. |
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| Rand | Lettered |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The 2/3 Thaler — equivalent to the Gulden and a dominant trade denomination across the fragmented German states — was a workhorse of the mid-18th-century Hessian economy. Hesse-Cassel under Frederick II was financially peculiar: the Landgrave essentially rented his subjects as soldiers to foreign powers, most infamously to Britain during the American Revolutionary War, and the resulting subsidies kept the treasury unusually flush. That income underwrote a relatively stable coinage even as neighboring states debased theirs.
KM#488 falls within a period when Hessian mint output was closely tied to the rhythms of these subsidy payments rather than domestic commercial demand.