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⅔ Reichsthaler - Ernest Frederick III Charles
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (German States) |
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| Year | 1760 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A seated allegorical female figure, representing Pietas or Justice, is shown in three-quarter view facing left, resting her arm upon a stone plinth inscribed PIETATE / ET / IUSTI / TIA. To her left stands the crowned Saxon electoral shield, flanked by military trophies including a drum, cannon balls, and a horn. The date 1760 is divided by the fraction 2/3 within an ornamental cartouche at the base of the design. The circular legend reads • ZWANZIG EINE FEIN MARCK, denoting the fineness standard of twenty coins per fine mark of silver. |
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| Mint | Hildburghausen, Germany |
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Saxe-Hildburghausen was one of the smallest and most financially precarious of the Ernestine duchies, perpetually dependent on imperial subsidies and family loans. Ernest Frederick III Charles ruled a territory so underfunded that his coinage was issued sporadically rather than as a functioning monetary program. The Seven Years' War, ongoing at this coin's striking, had devastated Saxon finances broadly — for a minor duchy like Hildburghausen, wartime silver coinage was as much a statement of continued sovereignty as any practical currency measure.
The ⅔ Reichsthaler denomination, equivalent to the North German Gulden, was standardized under the Leipzig Foot of 1690.