6 Pfennig - Francis Josias

Francis Josias ruled Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, not Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach — this coin was struck under his authority as administrator of the latter duchy during a regency period, a jurisdictional arrangement common among the fragmented Ernestine Saxon lines whose territorial inheritances were perpetually reshuffled by partition treaties. The two-year window of 1752–53 brackets the issue tightly, suggesting production ceased with a change in administrative arrangements rather than any monetary reform.