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1719, Brandenburg-Bayreuth, George William. Silver 1/12 Thaler (2 Groschen) Coin. VF+

Condition: VF+ Mint year: 1719 Reference: KM-127. Denomination: 1/24 Thaler (2 Groschen) Diameter: 27mm Weight: 3.54gm  Material: Silver

Obverse: Crowned double-arms foliaged of Brandenburg-Bayreuth with initials (S-R) in the middle. Legend: GEORGIUS FVILIELMUS D.G.M.BRANDENB Reverse: Fractional value (*12*) above denomination (*EINEN*/*THAL*) and date (*1719*). Legend: + NACH CHUR SACHS : U . BRAND : KRON . U . SCHROT .

The Principality of Bayreuth (German: Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Brandenburg-Bayreuth was a reichsfrei principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Franconian city of Bayreuth. Until 1604 its capital city was Kulmbach; then the margraves used their palaces in Bayreuth as their residence. Until the end of the empire in 1806, the margravate was called the Principality of Kulmbach (German: Fürstentum Kulmbach) or Brandenburg-Kulmbach. The incorrect 'Principality of Bayreuth' was used in unofficial writing and publications. The ruling Hohenzollern princes of the land were known as margraves, as the Kleinstaaterei principality was a margravate (but not a march).

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George William of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (German: Georg Wilhelm; Bayreuth, 26 November 1678 – Bayreuth, 18 December 1726) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

He was the first son of Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by his second wife, Sophie Louise of Württemberg-Stuttgart,   the fifth of six children. Two sisters died in infancy before his own   birth, and his only brother, born in 1679, lived only five months. Of   his two surviving sisters, the eldest, Christiane Eberhardine, became the wife of August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and the youngest, Eleonore Magdalene, married a distant kinsman, Hermann Frederick, Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.

George William succeeded his father as margrave of Bayreuth when he   died on 20 May 1712. He pursued a military career due to a lack of   academic aptitude and participated successfully on the imperial side in   numerous battles. In this connection, he was seriously hit by a musket   ball near Landau,   a wound that never healed completely. In his youth, before acceding to   the margraviate, he created the suburb Saint George in The Lake (German: St. Georgen am See). It was intended to be a self-contained city (today in the district of Bayreuth) built in baroque style with a castle in the lake. In the artificially-created Brandenburg Pond (German: Brandenburger Weiher), fed by the Steinach tributary, he installed a ski jump and organized naval battles with real ships. On 17 November 1705, he created the Order of the Red Eagle (German: Roter Adlerorden), then known as the Ordre de la Sincérité,   and celebrated the anniversary of its foundation every year with   splendid festivities. The Order of the Red Eagle also possessed its own   church, the Sophienkirche. 18th-century coats of arms of the Order are   displayed there to this day.

The margrave was an enthusiastic hunter who built the Emperor's Hunting Seat (German: Kaiserhammer) and the Thiergarten. In addition, he is considered the builder of the Hermitage Museum and Schloss Neustädtlein. As margrave, he expanded the armed forces substantially.

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