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⅙ Reichsthaler - Ernest Frederick III Charles
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen (German States) |
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| Year | 1758 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of Ernst Friedrich III Carl, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, facing right, wearing a long flowing wig with curled locks and an ornate mantle adorned with ermine and decorative embroidery. The effigy fills the field with considerable relief and baroque artistic treatment. A Latin legend encircles the bust reading ERN: FRID: CAR: D: G: DUX SAXON:, separated by pellets. The rim is defined by a fine milled border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Saxe-Hildburghausen was among the smallest and most financially strained of the Ernestine Saxon duchies, perpetually dependent on imperial subsidies and family inheritance disputes. The 1758 date places this squarely in the Seven Years' War, when even minor German princes faced crushing obligations to supply troops and materiel — expenses that drove several small courts to debase their coinage well below accepted Reichstaler standards. Billon issues from this period frequently reflect that fiscal pressure directly in their alloy.
Ernest Frederick III Charles ruled for over six decades, an unusually long reign for so small a territory, and his coinage output was correspondingly scattered and low in volume throughout.