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1⁄48 Thaler - Charles Frederick
| Issuer | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
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| Year | 1831 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 1831 date places this coin squarely in the period following the July Revolution in Paris, which sent shockwaves through the German states and prompted Charles Frederick to grant Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach a revised constitution that same year — one of the more liberal in the Confederation at the time. Small billon fractions like this forty-eighth thaler were the workhorses of everyday local commerce, and the duchy's monetary output remained tied to the wider Saxon thaler system rather than pursuing independent monetary policy.