6 Pfennig - Frederick III

Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was among the smallest and most fiscally cautious of the Ernestine duchies, and Frederick III's billon issues of this period reflect a court perpetually managing the gap between dynastic ambition and thin revenues. The Seven Years' War fell squarely across these dates — Thuringia was repeatedly crossed by Prussian, Imperial, and French forces between 1756 and 1763, and small-denomination billon coinage took the hardest beating in circulation during such disruptions, pressed into service for troop provisioning and local trade when larger specie fled.