1⁄48 Thaler - Charles Frederick

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.