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| Issuer | Saxe-Weimar, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1651 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1651 |
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Issued under Duke Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar in the immediate aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, this small silver piece entered circulation while the duchy was still absorbing the economic devastation of a conflict that had depopulated significant portions of Thuringia. Wilhelm — an unusually literary ruler who founded the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft literary society's Weimar circle — maintained a surprisingly active mint operation for a territory of modest means. The Dreier denomination, worth three Pfennig, was the workhorse of everyday local exchange.