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4 Pfennige - Charles August
| Issuer | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |
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| Year | 1821-1826 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | S. W. E. (Translation: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) |
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| Reverse lettering | 4 PFENNIGE 1821 * |
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Charles August ruled Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach during a period when the duchy was punching well above its political weight — Goethe was still active at court, and Weimar had become something of an intellectual capital of the German states. This copper issue belongs to a coinage reform effort undertaken by the smaller Thuringian states in the early 1820s, as the German Confederation pressed toward greater monetary standardization. Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was among the more cooperative of the minor duchies in this process, though full regional harmonization wouldn't arrive until the Conventions of the following decades.