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20 Kreuzers - Christian Frederick Charles Alexander
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1770 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Margrave Christian Frederick Charles Alexander facing right, set within a raised rhombus (lozenge-shaped) frame at the center of the coin field. The mint initial S appears in the exergue below the bust, at the base of the rhombus. The encircling legend is divided by the four corners of the rhombus into four segments reading ALEXANDER - MARCH: - BRAND: - DVX BOR:, occupying the spaces between the rhombus points and the milled border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ALEXANDER - MARCH: - BRAND: - DVX BOR: |
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Christian Frederick Charles Alexander — the last Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach — was by 1770 already showing the administrative indifference that would culminate in his 1791 sale of the entire margraviate to Prussia, the only instance of a Hohenzollern territory being formally sold rather than inherited or conquered. His coinage from this period is accordingly unremarkable in ambition, struck to circulating standards for a territory whose ruler had quietly stopped investing in its future.
The Wilmersdörfer and Hahn references diverge slightly on die classifications for this type, suggesting more than one working die pair was in use during the 1770 emission.