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2 Stüber - Friederike Auguste Sophie
| Issuer | Jever, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1798 |
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| Value | 2 Stüber (1/20) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain field carrying a three-line inscription stating the denomination and date: the large numeral '2' at the top, the word 'STÜBER' in the centre, and the mint year '1798' at the foot, all in boldly engraved Roman capitals against an unadorned field with no border legend. |
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Friederike Auguste Sophie inherited the Lordship of Jever in 1781 upon the death of her father, Friedrich August of Anhalt-Zerbst — making her the sister of Catherine the Great of Russia, a dynastic connection that gave this tiny North Sea territory an outsized political profile. She ruled as the last independent Lady of Jever until her death in 1811, after which Napoleon simply absorbed the lordship into the French Empire.
The 1798 issue falls squarely in the period of Revolutionary War disruption along the North Sea coast, when small German territories scrambled to maintain functional small change circulation.