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1/2 Thaler - Joachim II Ernest and Bernhard VII
| Issuer | Principality of Anhalt |
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| Year | 1567-1569 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Two confronted armored busts facing one another at center, each prince depicted in three-quarter armor with ruffled collar and elaborately detailed plate. The left bust represents Joachim Ernst and the right Bernhard VII, both rendered in the robust German Renaissance style characteristic of mid-sixteenth century hammered coinage. A circular legend in Latin surrounds the effigies, reading the titles and names of both co-ruling princes of Anhalt. The field between and around the busts is tightly filled by the broad-shouldered armored figures, leaving minimal open field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Anhalt in the late 1560s was governed jointly — an arrangement born of the 1516 partition that divided the principality among multiple Ascanian lines, repeatedly forcing co-regencies rather than unified rule. Joachim II Ernest and Bernhard VII were among the later pairings produced by this dynastic habit, their joint issues spanning a narrow window before Bernhard VII's death in 1570 collapsed the arrangement.
The Davenport reference places this squarely in the German Taler series, but at half-taler weight it occupied a practical denomination gap that Anhalt's modest mint output rarely filled consistently. Surviving examples attributable to this specific pairing are correspondingly scarce.