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1750, Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Frederick Christian.  Copper Heller Coin. VF+

Mint Year: 1750 Denomination: 1 Heller Condition: Lightly deformed, otherwise VF* Material: Copper Diameter: 18mm Weight: 0.75gm

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).

Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. Weferlingen, 17 July 1708 - d. Bayreuth, 20 January 1769), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was the youngest of fourteen children born to Margrave Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach by his wife, Countess Sophie Christiane of Wolfstein. His father died on 5 April 1708, almost three months before his birth. Besides him, only six of his siblings survived to adulthood: Georg Frederick Karl,  who became Margrave of Bayreuth; Albrecht Wolfgang, who was killed in  battle in 1734; Dorothea Charlotte, Countess of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim,  who died in 1712 after only seven months of marriage; Sophie Magdalene, Queen of Denmark; Frederick Ernst; and Sophie Caroline, Princess of Ostfriesland. Frederick Christian was considered an eccentric, indeed the "black  sheep" of the family. By the time of the death of his cousin Georg  Wilhelm, Margrave of Bayreuth (1726), he lived as a Danish  Lieutenant-general in Wandsbek near Hamburg and was not prepared for any government tasks in the principality of  Bayreuth. He did not exercise his power and left all the control of the  principality to his older brother George Frederick Charles. The death of his nephew Frederick without male issue on (26 February 1763),  however, found him the only male member of the Bayreuth branch of the  family, and, in consequence, the new Margrave of Bayreuth. After his assumption of the government in Bayreuth, Frederick  Christian tried to stabilize the ruined state finances by drastically  reducing the costs of the Bayreuth court. Most artists who had worked  there (among others, Carl von Gontard) went to Berlin to the court of King Frederick the Great. Almost all construction work in the castles and gardens were stopped. Bayreuth sank again into the Provinzialität (Province state).

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