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Issuing authority

Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel

Kind
principality
Region
Central Europe, Europe

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

5

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

5 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1767 – 1844

5 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Hesse-Kassel, Friedrich II, 2/3 Taler, 1767

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Hesse-Kassel, Friedrich II, 2/3 Taler, 1767

1767

Silver coin. Obverse: portrait of the Landgrave facing right. Reverse: oval composite coat of arms held by two lions and surrounded by the Order of the Garter, below which indication of value. Year in circumscription. Floral edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0677B; its record gives mate…

Documented

Partial type record

Hesse-Kassel, Landgravine Maria as regent, zehner, 1763

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Hesse-Kassel, Landgravine Maria as regent, zehner, 1763

1767

Silver coin. Obverse: on either side of a crowned column on a pedestal two coats of arms bound together. Value designation and year in circumscription. Reverse: monogram within two tied branches. Cable edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0677A; its record gives material recorded as silver…

Documented

Partial type record

Hesse-Kassel, Friedrich II, 1/24 Taler, 1769

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Hesse-Kassel, Friedrich II, 1/24 Taler, 1769

1769

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned rampant lion clad in a mantle, facing left. Reverse: indication of value in three lines, below which the year. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0678; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurement…

Documented

Partial type record

2 Albus of Hesse from Hesse-Kassel of Friedrich II, 1776

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

2 Albus of Hesse from Hesse-Kassel of Friedrich II, 1776

1776

Billon coin. Obverse: crowned monogram. Reverse: indication of value in three lines, below which the year. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0679; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.2 cm x weight 2.95 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Electorate of Hesse-Kassel, Wilhelm II with Friedrich Wilhelm as regent, 1/6 Thaler, 1844

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Electorate of Hesse-Kassel, Wilhelm II with Friedrich Wilhelm as regent, 1/6 Thaler, 1844

1844

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned composite coat of arms encircled by an order of chivalry. Reverse: indication of value in three lines, with date below. Edge lettering. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0685A; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

  • 18th century4
  • 19th century1

Only the 5 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

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