1 Pfennig - Alexius Frederick Christian

Anhalt-Bernburg was one of the smallest of the fragmented Anhalt territories, and by 1808 it sat uncomfortably within Napoleon's reorganized German sphere following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. Alexius Frederick Christian ruled a principality barely capable of sustaining independent coinage, and these copper pfennigs represent some of the final years before the Anhalt lines began their slow consolidation — Anhalt-Bernburg itself surviving until 1863, when it merged with Dessau and Köthen into a unified Anhalt duchy upon the extinction of its ruling line.