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1 Thaler - Ernest Frederick Charles
| Issuer | Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1760 |
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| Currency | Conventionsthaler (1759-1826) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duke Ernest Frederick Charles facing right, with flowing curled wig tied at the back, the truncation showing armored drapery. The circular Latin legend reads ERN • FRID • CAR • D • G • DVX SAXON • around the periphery. The portrait is rendered in the Baroque style typical of mid-18th century German coinage, with fine detail in the hair and costume. A toothed milled border surrounds the entire design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saxe-Hildburghausen was among the smallest and most financially precarious of the Saxon duchies, perpetually dependent on subsidies from the Imperial court and, by the Seven Years' War period, badly exposed to the military disruptions crossing Thuringia. Ernest Frederick Charles ruled this pocket-sized territory for over five decades, yet thalers bearing his name are scarce precisely because the duchy's minting activity was intermittent and constrained — production ran through leased facilities rather than a standing mint of its own.
The 1760 date places this issue at the height of the Seven Years' War, when Thuringia was repeatedly crossed by Prussian and Imperial forces, coinage supply was disrupted, and small-state silver production often served fiscal rather than purely commercial ends.