⅙ Reichsthaler - Ernest Frederick III Charles

Saxe-Hildburghausen was among the smallest and most financially strained of the Ernestine duchies, a territory so perpetually indebted that Ernest Frederick III Charles spent much of his reign negotiating with creditors and the Imperial courts. The Seven Years' War, already straining every German state's treasury by 1758, hit minor duchies like Hildburghausen especially hard — billon fractional issues of this period were practical responses to chronic silver shortages rather than deliberate monetary policy.

The duchy's coinage rights were frequently contested, and output from Hildburghausen across this period was modest by any measure.