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3 Pfennig - Ernest Frederick I
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (German States) |
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| Year | 1716-1717 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Saxe-Hildburghausen was among the smallest and most financially precarious of the Ernestine splinter duchies, carved out of the Saxon territorial divisions of 1680. Ernest Frederick I ruled a territory so revenue-poor that even minor silver coinage required careful justification against bullion reserves. This 3 Pfennig piece, struck across only two years, likely reflects a specific local monetary need rather than routine production — the duchy relied heavily on coinage from neighboring Ernestine mints and rarely sustained independent issues for long.
The Hollmann and Slg. Merse references place this firmly within the specialized literature on Thuringian petty coinage, where surviving examples are genuinely scarce rather than merely undervalued.