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12 Grote - Frederick August of Anhalt Zerbst type I

Issuer Lordship of Jever
Year 1764
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering :D•G: F•A• P•A• D•S•A• e W•C•A•D•S•B•I•e K•&
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Jever's coinage in the 1760s reflects an awkward administrative reality: the lordship had passed to Frederick August of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1667 through inheritance, making the ruling house an absentee one for nearly a century by the time this piece was struck. Frederick August himself was the brother of Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst — who by 1764 had already seized the Russian throne as Catherine II. The family's attention was decidedly elsewhere.

The "type I" designation distinguishes this from a second variant issued the same year, suggesting a mid-production die revision at the Jever mint.

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