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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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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Ernst Friedrich III Carl, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, facing right, wearing armour with elaborate decorative mantle at the truncation, the hair dressed in period fashion with flowing curls. The effigy is boldly rendered in high relief against a plain field. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait, reading from upper left, with the title abbreviated in the customary German princely style. The entire design is enclosed within a finely toothed or milled border running along the coin's rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Saxe-Hildburghausen was among the smallest and most financially precarious of the Ernestine duchies, and 1758 fell squarely within the Seven Years' War — a conflict that devastated the Saxon territories through repeated occupation, requisition, and military levies. Ernest Frederick III Charles ruled a duchy so cash-starved that billon fractional issues like this one were a fiscal necessity rather than a policy choice, the silver content deliberately debased to stretch the mint's bullion as far as possible.
Hollmann 56 is not a common attribution in the trade.