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1 Silbergroschen - Alexander Charles Joint Coinage
| Issuer | Anhalt-Bernburg |
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| Year | 1851-1862 |
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| Value | 1 Silbergroschen = 1⁄30 Reichsthaler |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1851 A - - 175,500 1852 A - - 197,426 1855 A - - 302,974 1859 A - - 150,040 1862 A - - 300,000 |
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Anhalt-Bernburg's participation in joint coinage arrangements was a practical concession to the Prussian-dominated monetary order taking shape across the German states in the 1840s and 1850s. Alexander Charles — Duke from 1834 until his death in 1863 — ruled a territory so small and economically marginal that independent monetary policy was essentially fiction. The Dresdenkonvention of 1838 had already locked member states into shared weight and fineness standards, making issues like this one administratively unified even when struck under separate ducal authority.
Anhalt-Bernburg ceased to exist as a sovereign entity just two years after this series ended, absorbed into the consolidated Duchy of Anhalt in 1863 upon Alexander Charles dying without a male heir.