1⁄24 Thaler - John VI

John VI ruled Anhalt-Zerbst during the grinding aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that had depopulated much of the Anhalt territories by as much as half and left the principality's finances in prolonged disorder. Small-denomination silver fractions like this 1/24 Thaler — the Groschen equivalent within the Reichsmünzfuss system — were the workhorses of postwar economic reconstruction, circulating where larger coins rarely reached.

The KM#11.1 designation suggests at least a second die marriage exists for this type, though Mann#231 does not subdivide the issue further.