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1 Groschen - John George I, Christian I, August, Rudolph and Louis
| Issuer | Anhalt, Principality of |
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| Year | 1615-1617 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned two-fold arms of Anhalt displayed within an ornate oval cartouche, with the date divided about the crown at top. A continuous Latin legend surrounds the shield in the outer field, referencing the five joint princes of Anhalt. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Anhalt was partitioned repeatedly across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and by 1615 the principality was jointly administered by five co-ruling brothers simultaneously — an arrangement that produced some of the most administratively cluttered coinage in the Holy Roman Empire. All five names had to appear on a single small silver groschen, which is less a numismatic curiosity than a direct artifact of the inheritance laws that made consolidated rule nearly impossible in German dynastic territories.
The joint reign ended with the death of Christian I in 1630 and the gradual consolidation under fewer heirs. Coins from this five-brother period circulated for barely two years before the political arithmetic shifted again.