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24 Mariengroschen - Alexius Frederick Christian
| Issuer | Anhalt-Bernburg |
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| Year | 1796 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1603-1805) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a central inscription in multiple lines within a beaded inner circle, reading XXIIII / MARIEN / GROSCH· / FEIN SILBER / 1796 / ·H·S·, denoting the denomination of 24 Mariengroschen in fine silver, the date of issue, and the initials of engraver Hans Schluter. A surrounding peripheral legend in Latin script reads ALEXIUS FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN FURST ZU ANHALT, identifying the issuing ruler Prince Alexius Frederick Christian of Anhalt-Bernburg. The field is plain and the legend is separated from the central device by a beaded border. |
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| Mint | Bernburg Mint |
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Anhalt-Bernburg was one of the fractured Anhalt territories that had spent most of the eighteenth century in dynastic subdivision, and Alexius Frederick Christian ruled a principality of modest political weight — squeezed between Prussia and Saxony, producing coinage more as a function of sovereign right than economic necessity. The 24 Mariengroschen denomination itself was a north German accounting unit, the Mariengroschen tied historically to the Hanover monetary system.
By 1796, the French Revolutionary Wars were already destabilizing the currency landscape of the smaller German states, making issues like this one short-lived in practice.