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1 Kreuzer - August Frederick Charles
| Issuer | Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1781 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | S.C-M. (Translation: Saxe Coburg Meiningen) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 S.COB.MEIN. CONVENT. KREVZER 1781 I.C.K (Translation: Saxe Coburg Meiningen Konventionskreuzer 1781 I.C.K) |
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Saxe-Meiningen in 1781 was governed by a duchy so small and financially constrained that its coinage served largely as a local necessity rather than a meaningful trade instrument. August Frederick Charles ruled as Duke from 1746 until his death in 1782, leaving this issue among the final coinages of his reign. The Ernestine line of the Wettin dynasty, to which Saxe-Meiningen belonged, had fragmented through generations of inheritance division, producing a constellation of tiny Thuringian states each maintaining the ceremonial trappings of independent monetary production well past any practical justification.