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⅔ Thaler - Frederick I with his 6 brothers
| Issuer | Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1678-1679 |
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| Value | ⅔ Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIDERIC; DVX SAX.I.C.ET.M. 1679 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Frederick I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was the eldest of seven sons born to Ernest I ("the Pious"), whose death in 1675 triggered the partition of his duchy into seven separate sub-duchies — one of the most fragmented dynastic divisions in German territorial history. This ⅔ Thaler, struck across 1678–79, commemorates the brotherhood of those heirs at a moment when their political fates were already diverging. The format — grouping all seven brothers on a single coin — was a deliberate assertion of Ernestine unity that the actual partition had already undermined.