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2 Thalers / 3½ Guldens - Joseph
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg |
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| Year | 1841-1847 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Duke Joseph of Saxe-Altenburg facing left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curly hair and side-whiskers in the Neoclassical style. The truncation is plain and unadorned. The encircling legend reads IOSEPH HERZOG ZU SACHSEN ALTENBURG, with the mint mark F positioned at the base of the bust below the truncation. A fine dentilated border runs along the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1841 G - - 9,400 1842 G - - 4,700 1843 G - - 4,700 1847 F - - 9,400 |
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Saxe-Altenburg was one of the smaller Ernestine duchies produced by the endless dynastic partitioning of the Wettin family, and its coinage output was accordingly limited. Joseph, who ruled from 1834 until his death in 1848, presided over a duchy of fewer than 150,000 souls — which makes the six-year production window of this double thaler series relatively modest in total mintage terms.
The 3½ Gulden valuation reflects the South German Gulden convention adopted alongside the thaler denomination under the Dresden Coinage Convention of 1838, which standardized the relationship between the two currency systems across participating German states.