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1 Thaler - Ernest Frederick III Charles
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (German States) |
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| Year | 1769 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#96 II#2731 , Schnee#551 , Hollmann#121 Merse#3562 |
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| Obverse lettering | ERN FRID CAR D G DVX SAXON |
| Reverse description | A rampant lion passant facing left dominates the field, rendered with boldly detailed mane and upward-curling tail, serving as the dynastic heraldic beast of the Saxon line. To the lower left, the crowned Saxon arms — a shield bearing barry with a bend — are displayed on a crowned escutcheon. The encircling legend ZEHEN EINE FEINE MARK records the coin's fineness standard of ten coins to the fine mark. The date 1769 is inscribed in the lower exergue beneath a horizontal ground line. |
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Saxe-Hildburghausen was among the smallest and most financially precarious of the Ernestine duchies, perpetually burdened by debt so severe that the Imperial Aulic Council intervened in its fiscal administration for much of the eighteenth century. Ernest Frederick III Charles ruled this diminutive territory from 1745 until his death in 1780, navigating chronic insolvency while still maintaining the ceremonial obligation of issuing thalers — prestige coinage that functioned more as diplomatic currency and gift exchange than circulating money. The duchy's striking output was correspondingly thin.
The Schnee and Hollmann references place this precisely within a well-documented but low-survival series.