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⅔ Thaler - Charles Frederick William
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1753 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate crowned quartered coat of arms of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, supported on either side by two rampant eagles as heraldic supporters facing outward. The shield displays multiple quarterings representing the various territories and dignities of the ruler. The date 1753 is divided across the lower field flanking the central fraction denomination 2/3, with the legend identifying the Leipzig monetary standard inscribed below in the exergue area. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Brandenburg-Ansbach was by 1753 a margraviate in visible decline, its treasury chronically strained and its ruling line heading toward extinction. Charles Frederick William — Karl Friedrich Wilhelm — held the title but exercised limited independent authority, and coinage from his reign was issued partly to assert a sovereignty that was already slipping. The ⅔ Thaler denomination itself was a peculiarly North German convention, pegged to the 1690 Leipzig foot and designed to circulate across Protestant territories where the full Thaler was often hoarded.
The margraviate was absorbed into Prussia in 1791 when the last margrave, Alexander, died without heirs.