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1 Silbergroschen - Henry LXII
| Issuer | Reuss-Schleiz |
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| Year | 1841-1846 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the denomination in four lines across the central field: 1 SILBER GROSCHEN, with the date below and the mint mark A beneath. The surrounding circular legend reads 30 EINEN THALER at the top and SCHEIDE MÜNZE at the bottom, denoting the coin's fractional value and its status as a subsidiary currency. The overall layout is typographic, with no pictorial device, consistent with contemporary German small silver coinage of the period. |
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Reuss-Schleiz was one of the smallest sovereign territories in the German Confederation, covering barely 316 square kilometers at its peak. The elder line of the House of Reuss maintained the peculiar dynastic tradition of naming every male heir Heinrich — numbered sequentially across centuries — making Henry LXII not an unusually long-lived ruler but simply the sixty-second Heinrich in an unbroken chain stretching back to the 13th century.
The .222 fineness places this squarely in the debased billon range common to minor German states struggling to maintain independent minting operations before Prussian monetary consolidation swept most of them away after 1871.