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1⁄24 Thaler - Adolphus Frederick III
| Issuer | Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
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| Year | 1747-1749 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | CHI |
| Reverse description | Within a raised inner circle, the denomination is displayed in three lines reading '24 / EINEN / THAL', with a small decorative ornament below. The surrounding legend, separated by a floral rosette at top, reads 'LAND MUNTZ FR. MECHL. S.' The entire design is enclosed within a milled border. |
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Adolphus Frederick III ruled Mecklenburg-Strelitz for less than a decade before his death in 1752, and his coinage output was correspondingly thin. The 1/24 Thaler denomination — the Groschen equivalent in the northern German reckoning — served the small-change needs of one of the most territorially modest duchies in the Holy Roman Empire. Mecklenburg-Strelitz had been partitioned from Mecklenburg-Schwerin only in 1701, and its minting activity throughout the eighteenth century reflected the fiscal constraints of a court perpetually outpaced by its larger neighbors.