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1/2 Thaler - Christian Frederick Charles Alexander 1/2 Konventionstaler
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1765 |
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| Value | 1/2 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | ALEXANDER · D · G · M · B · D · R · S |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Brandenburg-Ansbach was a minor Hohenzollern principality destined for extinction — Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, who ruled from 1757, was its last margrave, ceding the territory to Prussia in 1791 in exchange for a pension and eventually dying in English exile. The Konventionstaler standard under which this half-piece was struck derived from the 1753 Munich Convention between Austria and Bavaria, an attempt to rationalize the bewildering variety of silver coinage circulating across the German states.
The KM#266.2 designation distinguishes this from the closely related .1 variety. Wilmer's attribution 1119 places it firmly within the brief window of Alexander's early reign.