3 Pfennigs - Charles August
Features
| Issuer |
Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
(Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German States)
 |
|---|---|
| Duke |
Charles Augustus (Karl August) (1758-1815)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 1791-1792 |
| Value | 3 Pfennigs (3 Pfennige) |
| Currency | Thaler (1741-1870) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 7.90 g |
| Diameter | 26.54 mm |
| Thickness | 1.65 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 259081 |
| References | KoppeSW# 611 Lothar Koppe; 2007. Die Münzen des Hauses Sachsen-Weimar: 1573 bis 1918 = The Coinage of the House of Saxe-Weimar. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany. Kurt Jaeger, Walter Grasser; 1970. Die Münzprägungen der deutschen Staaten vom Ausgang des alten vor Einführung der Reichswährung / Band 11. Die sächsischen Herzogtümer = The coinages of the German states from the beginning of the old currency before the introduction of the imperial currency. Munzen & Medaillen, Basel, Switzerland. Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). Otto Merseburger; 1894. Sammlung Otto Merseburger umfassend Münzen und Medaillen von Sachsen.: Albertinische und ernestinische Linie = Otto Merseburger Collection comprising coins and medals from Saxony. Münzhandlung Zschiesche und Köder, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. |
Obverse
Shield of ducal Saxony arms, engraver symbol below.
Script: Latin
Lettering: S.W.U.E.
Unabridged legend: Sachsen Weimar und Eisenach
Translation: Saxe Weimar and Eisenach
Reverse
Curved 3 line inscription with date, rosette below.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
3
PFENNIG
1791
🞲
Edge
Plain
Mint
Eisenach, GermanyComments
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (German: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) was a historical German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741.
The Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach branch has been the most genealogically senior extant branch of the House of Wettin since 1672.
The Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach branch has been the most genealogically senior extant branch of the House of Wettin since 1672.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | Frequency | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1791 | 53% | ||||||||||||||
| 1792 | Curved Shield Edges | 42% | |||||||||||||
| 1792 | Straight Shield Edges | 11% | |||||||||||||
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