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⅔ Thaler - Christian Frederick Charles Alexander
| Uitgever | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Jaar | 1757 |
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| Diameter | 35.3 mm |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Elaborately quartered and crowned coat of arms of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, flanked on either side by a displayed eagle standing outward, all rendered in high relief baroque style. Below the shield, the fractional denomination 2/3 appears in an oval cartouche formed by scrollwork, with the date divided around the denomination as 17–57, and a mintmaster's mark to the left. The overall composition is framed by ornate foliate scrollwork. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Brandenburg-Ansbach's 1757 coinage falls squarely within the Seven Years' War, a conflict that gutted the treasury of nearly every German principality. Christian Frederick Charles Alexander — better known as Carl Alexander — was a margrave of the Hohenzollern line ruling a territory perpetually overshadowed by its more powerful Prussian cousins. The ⅔ Thaler denomination, essentially the Gulden-Thaler of north German commerce, was a workhorse of regional trade rather than a prestige issue.
Ansbach's mint output in this period was uneven; wartime silver supplies were disrupted and multiple contractors handled striking. Davenport's SG#314 designation places this squarely in the secondary German states sequence.