Alexander Carl was the last ruling Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, a line that extinguished with his death in 1863 — just months after this coin's final year of issue. The "Ausbeute" designation marks it as a mining-revenue piece, struck specifically from silver extracted at the duchy's Harzgerode mines, a practice that gave the issuing authority both a revenue stream and a prestige commemorative in one strike.
Anhalt-Bernburg was absorbed into the unified Duchy of Anhalt in 1863, making this one of the final independent coinages from the line.
Alexander Carl was the last ruling Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, a line that extinguished with his death in 1863 — just months after this coin's final year of issue. The "Ausbeute" designation marks it as a mining-revenue piece, struck specifically from silver extracted at the duchy's Harzgerode mines, a practice that gave the issuing authority both a revenue stream and a prestige commemorative in one strike.
Anhalt-Bernburg was absorbed into the unified Duchy of Anhalt in 1863, making this one of the final independent coinages from the line.