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1 Pfennig - Francis Frederick Anthony
| Issuer | Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1805 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄384) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing a three-line inscription denoting the denomination and date, reading '1 / PFENIG / 1805' from top to bottom. The lettering is rendered in serif characters within a beaded border. The design is austere and purely typographic, consistent with minor coinage of the period. |
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Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was a duchy perpetually on the edge of financial embarrassment in the early nineteenth century, and Francis Frederick Anthony's brief reign — he died in 1806, just a year after this issue — left little time for monetary ambition. The duchy's billon coinage of this period was struck under considerable fiscal pressure, the territory having been squeezed between Napoleonic taxation and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire the following year.
Francis Frederick Anthony is better remembered today as the father of Leopold I of Belgium than as a ruler of any numismatic consequence.