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1⁄24 Thaler - Charles August
| Issuer | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
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| Year | 1794-1814 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The denomination expressed as '24' in large bold numerals occupying the upper field, followed below by the three-line inscription EINEN THALER in bold raised lettering, with S.M. (Scheidemünze) beneath, and the date 1801 along the lower exergual area. The entire reverse is dominated by the typographic presentation of the fractional value, consistent with standard German states coinage of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles August ruled Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach during one of the most turbulent reshapings of German political geography in history — the Napoleonic reorganization that dissolved the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and folded most of the region into the Confederation of the Rhine. Weimar's survival as a distinct duchy owed much to Charles August's careful diplomacy and his personal relationship with Goethe, whom he had appointed as a senior court official decades earlier.
The billon composition reflects the chronic silver shortages that plagued the smaller German states through the Napoleonic wars, when bullion was routinely diverted to fund military obligations.