1⁄24 Thaler / 1 Groschen - Frederick III

Frederick III of Brandenburg-Bayreuth died in 1763, but 1740 marks the year Frederick the Great ascended the Prussian throne — an event that reordered political calculations across the Franconian circle and put smaller Hohenzollern territories like Bayreuth in an awkward position of nominal kinship with an increasingly dominant cousin state. Billon issues of this type circulated heavily in regional trade and were frequently debased by successor mints attempting to stretch silver supplies during the mid-century wars.