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1 Vereinsthaler - Heinrich LXVII
| Issuer | Reuss-Schleiz |
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| Year | 1858-1862 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of Heinrich LXVII, Prince of Reuss-Schleiz, rendered with fine detail to the hair and short beard with moustache, the truncation of the bust appearing at the lower centre of the field. The mint mark 'A' for the Berlin Mint appears below the bust truncation. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait, enclosed by a beaded border at the rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | HEINRICH LXVII V.G.REG.FÜRST REUSS I.L. |
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Reuss-Schleiz was among the smallest sovereign states in the German Confederation, a principality whose male rulers were all named Heinrich by dynastic convention and numbered sequentially across the entire Reuss lineage — hence Heinrich LXVII, a number that strikes modern readers as absurd but was entirely deliberate. The Vereinsthaler itself was the product of the Vienna Coinage Treaty of 1857, which standardized silver coinage across the Austrian Empire and the German states to facilitate trade across dozens of otherwise incompatible monetary systems.
Schleiz's output under this type was extremely limited by any minting standard, which accounts for the relative difficulty in locating problem-free examples today.