1/2 Thaler - Joachim II Ernest and Bernhard VII

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.