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3 Stüber - Maximilian IV Joseph
| Issuer | Berg |
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| Year | 1806 |
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| Value | 3 Stuber (1/20) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the interlaced royal cipher 'MJ' — the conjoined initials of Maximilian Joseph — rendered in elaborate cursive script and surmounted by a princely crown with arched bands and pearled rim. The monogram is the sole design element, set against a plain, unlegended field, presenting a dignified and restrained heraldic composition characteristic of early nineteenth-century German minor coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | MJ |
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Berg was a French client state under Joachim Murat from 1806, and its coinage that year reflects the administrative scramble following Napoleon's reorganization of the Rhineland after Austerlitz. Maximilian IV Joseph — simultaneously Elector of Bavaria — appeared on Berg issues only briefly before the duchy passed entirely out of Wittelsbach hands when Murat was elevated to King of Naples in 1808.
The low silver fineness was deliberate policy, not debasement by attrition.