2 Thalers / 3½ Gulden - Bernhard II

Bernhard II's rule over Saxe-Meiningen was defined less by coinage than by political turbulence — he had already granted his duchy a liberal constitution in 1829, one of the more progressive acts among the Thuringian states, and spent subsequent years navigating pressure from both his own subjects and the Austrian-dominated German Confederation. The double thaler denomination itself was a product of the Dresden Convention of 1838, which standardized a bimetallic coinage framework across the German states and mandated this heavy 2-Thaler format as a common cross-border trade piece.

Saxe-Meiningen's tiny mint output means survivors in any grade are genuinely scarce.