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1⁄48 Thaler - Alexius Frederick Christian
| Issuer | Anhalt-Bernburg |
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| Year | 1807 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination and date are displayed in bold raised numerals and lettering arranged across four lines in the central field: the large numeral '48' at top, followed by 'EINEN', then 'THALER', and the date '1807' at the base. The inscription is presented without a surrounding legend or decorative border, occupying the full field in a plain typographic style characteristic of minor German states' fractional coinage of the early 19th century. |
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Anhalt-Bernburg was among the smallest of the fragmented German principalities that Napoleon reorganized under the Confederation of the Rhine in 1807 — the very year this piece was struck. Alexius Frederick Christian had ruled since 1796 and managed to retain nominal sovereignty through careful accommodation of French demands, a posture that kept his mint active even as larger neighbors lost theirs.
The 1⁄48 thaler denomination survived well into the nineteenth century in the smaller Saxon-influenced states precisely because it filled a gap in everyday transactions that neither the groschen nor the pfennig quite covered.