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1⁄12 Thaler - John Frederick Alexander
| Issuer | Wied-Neuwied, County of |
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| Year | 1752-1757 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1744-1783) |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID ALEX COM WEDAE |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wied-Neuwied was a tiny Rhenish county of the Holy Roman Empire whose counts maintained minting rights more as a matter of prestige than economic necessity. John Frederick Alexander ruled from 1737 until his death in 1791, and the 1752–1757 window for this issue likely reflects a brief exercise of those rights during a period when small-denomination silver was in chronic short supply across the fragmented German states — a shortage exacerbated by Seven Years' War financing that was already beginning to destabilize regional monetary networks before the conflict officially opened in 1756.