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1 Thaler - Frederick William and John

Issuer Saxe-Weimar, Duchy of
Year 1595-1597
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Value 1 Thaler
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Edge Plain
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Frederick William and his brother John administered Saxe-Weimar jointly following the partition arrangements within the Ernestine branch of the Wettins — a dynastic house that had been parceling and re-parceling its territories since the Leipzig Division of 1485. Joint-rule coinages of this type required both rulers to be named, a political necessity that complicated die production and created a compressed window of issue whenever the co-regency changed composition through death or further subdivision.

Frederick William died in 1602, ending the joint administration. Pieces struck across the three-year window of this issue show variation in die workmanship consistent with more than one engraver.

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