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6 Kreuzers - Charles Gold Pattern
| Issuer | Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Principality of |
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| Year | 1840 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 6 KREUZER 1840 |
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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.