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6 Pfennig - Henry II
| Issuer | Reuss-Lobenstein |
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| Year | 1761 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1759-1790) |
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| Obverse lettering | G 2 R |
| Reverse description | Imperial orb at centre, displaying the Roman numeral VI denoting the denomination within the lower hemisphere, divided by a horizontal bar. A floriate cross surmounts the orb, with foliate terminals extending to either side. The mint-master's initials I.C.E. flank the orb horizontally, and the date 1761 arcs across the upper field. The milled border encircles the design. |
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Reuss-Lobenstein was one of the smallest and most financially precarious of the Thuringian Reuss principalities, a house so subdivided by inheritance customs that its coinage output was sporadic and often contracted out to distant mints. The 1761 date places this piece squarely in the Seven Years' War, a conflict that drained even larger German states to the point of currency debasement — billon being the predictable result for a territory of Lobenstein's limited means.
Henry II ruled Reuss-Lobenstein from 1739 until his death in 1782, one of the longer reigns among the fractured Reuss lines.