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4 Stübers - Frederick Alexander
| Issuer | Wied-Neuwied, County of |
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| Year | 1752 |
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| Value | 4 Stübers (1⁄15) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned quartered shield bearing the arms of Wied-Neuwied, elaborately mantled with foliate and scroll ornaments, occupying the central field. The initials G. W. (Graf Wied) appear divided by the crown above the shield, one letter to each side. The entire design is rendered in a baroque heraldic style typical of small German territorial coinages of the mid-eighteenth century. |
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| Obverse lettering | G. W. |
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Frederick Alexander ruled Wied-Neuwied as a small Rhenish county within the Holy Roman Empire, one of dozens of petty lordships exercising the jealously guarded right of coinage — Münzrecht — that imperial fragmentation had preserved for centuries. By 1752, billon issues of this denomination were already anachronistic in much of the Empire, surviving mainly in minor territories where local prestige outweighed monetary practicality. Wied-Neuwied's coinage output was never large, and pieces from this county circulate through the specialist market only sporadically.