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2 Thalers / 3½ Gulden - Ernest II
| Issuer | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1854 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Elaborately rendered and crowned coat of arms of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, quartered with multiple heraldic devices and supported on either side by draped mantling falling from the royal crown above. The shield is richly detailed in the Renaissance tradition, featuring lions, eagles, and other dynastic emblems. The surrounding legend, divided by the shield and ornamental devices, reads 2 THALER VII EINE F. MARK 3½ GULDEN VEREINS MÜNZE with the date 18 54 in the lower exergual area. A beaded border encircles the entire composition. |
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| Mintage | 1854 F - - 16,050 |
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Ernest II became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1844 following the death of his father, Ernest I, and spent much of his reign navigating the fractious politics of German unification — a liberal constitutionalist who backed the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848 and never quite abandoned those sympathies. The dual denomination on this piece, expressing value simultaneously in the north German thaler standard and the south German gulden convention, reflects the monetary friction that plagued the German states before Bismarck resolved the question by other means.
The Dresden Coinage Convention of 1838 had attempted to bridge exactly this divide, and double-thaler issues of this type were among its more tangible products.