Nassau 1808 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2950 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $156. The catalog description[1] noted, "NASSAU: Duchy, AE kreuzer, 1808, Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Usingen joint issue, two-year type, VF-XF, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." When the principalities of Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Usingen joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, Napoleon required them to agree to a merger upon the death of one or the other of the princes. All expected prince Frederick August of Nassau-Usingen to predecease his younger cousin, prince Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg, but Frederick William went first, in 1816. His son, William, became the first duke of Nassau.
Recorded mintage: 798,510.
Specifications: 4.25 g, copper, 19.25 mm diameter, obliquely reeded edge.
Catalog reference: KM-10, Cr-A3.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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