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1⁄12 Thaler - Ernest Frederick III Charles L:M:
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (German States) |
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| Year | 1760 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Duke Ernest Frederick III Charles of Saxe-Hildburghausen, depicted with a curled periwig and lace cravat, rendered in a baroque portrait style typical of mid-18th century German coinage. The bust occupies the central field and is encircled by a beaded inner border. The Latin legend ERN.FRID.CAR.D.G.DUX SAXON. runs along the periphery, identifying the ruler by his abbreviated name and ducal title. |
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| Mintage | 1760 |
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Saxe-Hildburghausen was among the smallest and most financially precarious of the Saxon duchies, perpetually dependent on subsidies from the larger Ernestine lines. Ernest Frederick III Charles ruled a territory so diminished that the duchy was eventually dissolved entirely in 1826, its lands absorbed into the newly consolidated Saxe-Meiningen. Coinage from his reign survives in small numbers — not because of deliberate rarity, but because a state this size simply did not mint in volume.
1760 fell in the middle of the Seven Years' War, when Saxon territories were heavily disrupted by Prussian occupation and military requisitioning.