6 Kreuzers - Charles Gold Pattern

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was a tiny Catholic principality in southwestern Germany, and by 1840 its ruling family had already begun negotiating the morganatic arrangements that would dissolve its sovereign status entirely — the Hohenzollern lands were ceded to Prussia in 1849. This gold pattern for a 6 Kreuzer piece was never adopted for circulation, almost certainly because the principality lacked both the mint infrastructure and the fiscal rationale to strike a gold coin of such modest face value.

Pattern survivorship from this territory is exceptionally thin. Schlumberger catalogued only a handful of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen pattern pieces, and this is among the most anomalous in the series given the denomination-to-metal mismatch.