24 Mariengroschen - Alexius Frederick Christian

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.