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| Issuer | Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1812-1818 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/4 KREUZER LANDMÜNZE. |
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Bernhard Erich Freund inherited the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen in 1803 at age two, placing his mother Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in regency control through 1821. These copper fractions were struck during the Confederation of the Rhine period and its immediate aftermath — years when the smaller German states were caught between Napoleonic reorganization and the eventual reordering under the Congress of Vienna. Saxe-Meiningen survived both intact, one of the few Ernestine duchies to emerge without significant territorial disruption.