GERMANY SCHWARZBURG-SONDERSHAUSEN 3 pfennig 1846 A

Description

Schwarzburg is a town in Saalfeld-Rudostadt district in Thuringia. It was a County from the 12th century, Rudolstadt is another town in Thuringia. In 1583 the Schwarzburg Count died without a successor, and a negotiation between claimaints gave rise to the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen lines. The Rudolstadt line merged with the Sonderhausen line in 1909, and the ruling prince abdicated in 1918.

The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of anarchy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.

By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.