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1/2 Thaler - Ernest I
| Issuer | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1830-1835 |
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| Weight | 14.03 g |
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| Reverse description | The quartered arms of Saxony — featuring the traditional barry with a bend — displayed on a shield surmounted by a ducal crown, and flanked symmetrically by two sprays of oak and olive branches tied at the base with a ribbon. The arc legend ZANZIG EINE FEINE MARK appears along the upper field, and the date is inscribed in the exergue below the wreath. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZANZIG EINE FEINE MARK |
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Ernest I became the first Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1826 following the territorial reorganization forced by the extinction of the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg lines. The new duchy was an administrative fiction in some respects — two geographically separated territories joined under one ruler — and coinage issued during this early period reflects the regime's need to assert a coherent dynastic identity that barely existed on the ground.
The five-year production window corresponds to the consolidation phase before Ernest's finances stabilized. His son, the future Prince Albert of Britain, was born in 1819, and the House's dynastic ambitions were already well in motion by the time these half-thalers entered circulation.