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6 Kreuzers - Bernhard Erich Freund Bernhard II
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen |
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| Year | 1808-1813 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The numeral '6' denoting the denomination is prominently displayed in the central field, enclosed within a circular oak wreath whose tied branches frame the value. A surrounding circular legend indicates the coin's fineness standard of 240 pieces to the fine mark, with the mint year inscribed at the lower exergue. |
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Bernhard II inherited Saxe-Meiningen in 1803 as a minor, with his mother Louise Eleonore serving as regent through 1821 — meaning this issue circulated under effective female regency during the Napoleonic reorganization of the German states. Saxe-Meiningen joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, and the duchy's coinage of this period reflects the administrative scramble to maintain local monetary identity within a Napoleonic-dominated framework. The billon alloy was a fiscal concession to wartime metal shortages that plagued every small German state after Jena.