1 Ducat - Alexius Frederick Christian Ausbeute-Harzgold-Dukat

Anhalt-Bernburg was a threadbare principality by the 1820s — small territory, modest court, and a ruling house that nonetheless maintained the German tradition of striking Ausbeute coins from locally sourced mining yields. This ducat was produced from Harz gold, the ore-rich mountain range whose silver and gold mines had underwritten central German politics for centuries. By 1825, Harz production was well past its medieval peak, which makes these late Ausbeute issues a direct record of diminishing but still-functioning extraction.

Alexius Frederick Christian ruled Anhalt-Bernburg from 1796 until his death in 1834, the last duke before the line extinguished and the territory merged into Anhalt-Dessau.