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5 Kreuzers - Ernest Frederick III
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (German States) |
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| Year | 1765 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse 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 duchies, perpetually indebted and dependent on subsidies from the Frankish Circle. Ernest Frederick III ruled a territory so strapped that in 1769 — just four years after this issue — the duchy formally declared insolvency, its finances placed under Imperial administration. Billon coinage of this type was part of the problem: fractional pieces struck in debased silver-copper alloy to stretch limited bullion reserves, a practice that eroded trust in local currency across the region.
Hollmann's documentation of this type remains the authoritative reference for Hildburghausen coinage precisely because Imperial-era German catalogers largely overlooked it.