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1/2 Kreuzer - Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe Langenburg Princess Regent
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen |
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| Year | 1812-1818 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse lettering | HERZ.S.C.MEININGEN. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louise Eleonore served as regent for her son Bernhard II following the death of her husband Georg I in 1803, governing Saxe-Meiningen through the turbulent Napoleonic reorganization of the German states. The duchy's inclusion in the Confederation of the Rhine from 1806 brought administrative pressure to rationalize the patchwork of small-denomination copper coinage circulating across Thuringia. These half-kreuzer pieces were struck across a six-year window precisely to address that shortage at the lowest transactional level. Bernhard came of age and assumed direct rule in 1821, making Louise Eleonore one of the few women to issue coins in her own regency title within the Ernestine Saxon duchies.