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1⁄12 Thaler - Alexius Frederick Christian
| Issuer | Anhalt-Bernburg |
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| Year | 1799 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1603-1805) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within a central beaded inner circle, the denomination numeral '12' appears at the top with a fraction bar above it, followed by the three-line inscription EINEN / THALER, the date 1799, and the mintmaster's initials H·S· below; surrounding this central field, a circular outer legend reads CLX EINE FEINE MARK CONVENT·M·, indicating the coin's fineness standard of 160 pieces to the Cologne Mark under Convention coinage. The entire design is framed by a beaded border with a plain outer rim. |
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Anhalt-Bernburg was among the smallest of the fragmented German principalities, and its coinage in the 1790s reflects the fiscal strain common to minor states caught between French Revolutionary war costs and the crumbling Holy Roman imperial framework. Alexius Frederick Christian ruled from 1796 until the principality was absorbed into the Napoleonic reorganization of German territories. This 1/12 Thaler in billon — an alloy signaling constrained silver reserves — was struck just years before Bernburg's monetary independence became effectively meaningless under Westphalian reorganization.