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1/2 Thaler - John William
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Jena |
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| Year | 1688 |
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| Value | 1/2 Thaler |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1688 |
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Saxe-Jena was among the most short-lived of the Ernestine Saxon partition states, surviving only from 1672 until 1690 when it was absorbed back into Saxe-Weimar following the death of John William without a male heir. This half thaler was struck just two years before that extinction, making the entire coinage of the duchy a compressed series spanning fewer than two decades.
John William's court at Jena maintained a mint despite ruling a territory of negligible political weight — a common vanity of the fragmented Ernestine line, where dynastic prestige demanded coinage regardless of economic necessity.