1 Mariengroschen - Victor II Frederick

Victor II Frederick ruled Anhalt-Bernburg for less than two decades before the principality's finances deteriorated sharply under the pressures of the Seven Years' War. Billon coinage of this type was a fiscal compromise — debased enough to stretch silver reserves, but still accepted for petty transactions where full silver would never have circulated anyway. Mann#639a distinguishes this variety from closely related issues of the period by die characteristics that remain a point of debate among Anhalt specialists.