1/2 Thaler - Christian Frederick Charles Alexander 1/2 Konventionstaler

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.