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6 Pfennigs - William Henry
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach (German States) |
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| Year | 1733 |
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| Value | 6 Pfennigs (6 Pfennige) (1⁄48) |
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| Obverse lettering | W H D G D S I C M A & W C S & W |
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| Reverse lettering | 17 33 VI FURSTL SACHS EISENACH LAND MUNTZ |
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William Henry ruled Saxe-Eisenach for less than two years before the duchy was absorbed into Saxe-Weimar upon his death in 1741 — though this piece dates from well within his reign. Eisenach's billon coinage of the 1730s was chronically debased, reflecting the broader currency degradation afflicting the smaller Thuringian states as they struggled to service debts accumulated during and after the Thirty Years' War's long financial aftershocks.
The Kreis system attempted to regulate such minor denominations across the Empire, with only partial success in territories this small.