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⅙ Thaler - Victor II Frederick Seven Years' War - Mule

Issuer Anhalt-Bernburg
Year 1758
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Technique Milled
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Mintage 1758 B
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Anhalt-Bernburg was a tiny Saxon principality with no meaningful military role in the Seven Years' War, yet its mint was active enough to produce experimental or error combinations during the conflict years. A mule — pairing dies not originally intended together — from this period almost certainly reflects the frantic output pressures on small German mints supplying subsidiary coinage to a region economically disrupted by Prussian and Austrian troop movements across Saxony.

Victor II Frederick ruled Anhalt-Bernburg from 1721 until his death in 1765. Mules from minor German states of this period are rarely the product of collector fabrication at the time; they more often reflect die availability and mint-floor pragmatism.

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