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1 Thaler - John Casimir and John Ernest
| Issuer | Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1597-1599 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1572-1638) |
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| Obverse description | Half-length effigies of the two co-ruling dukes, John Casimir and John Ernest, facing one another at center, both depicted in elaborate period armor with ruffled collars and richly detailed dress; the two figures clasp hands between them in a gesture of fraternal accord. A small imperial orb appears above the facing busts within the inner circle. The surrounding circular legend, interrupted by a secondary aphoristic motto ribbon reading FRID. ERNEHRT - VNFRID. VER. ZEHRT (Peace nourishes — Discord devours), runs along the beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | LANTG. THVRI. ET. MARCHIO. MISN(I). MON. IMPERI. |
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Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach existed as a unified duchy for barely a decade. John Casimir and John Ernest inherited jointly from their father John Frederick II in 1596, and the arrangement lasted only until John Casimir's death in 1633 forced yet another territorial reshuffling among the Ernestine Wettin branches — a dynasty so prone to partition that contemporaries had difficulty tracking which cousin held which sliver of Thuringia. Joint-reign thalers of this type were struck across just three years before administrative priorities shifted the coinage.