2 Pfennige - Charles August

Charles August ruled Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach during one of the most turbulent reorganizations of German territorial politics — the Napoleonic dismemberment of the Holy Roman Empire, which formally dissolved in 1806. That same year, Napoleon pressured the minor German states into the Confederation of the Rhine, and Charles August, despite his Weimar court's famous association with Goethe and Schiller, had little choice but to join. The copper small denominations struck across this window reflect a duchy scrambling to maintain administrative continuity through abrupt constitutional change.