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The Anhalt principalities were divided among the five sons of Joachim Ernest in 1603. It took 260 years for four of the branches of the family to die out and in 1863 the Dessau line became the only one. Prince Leopold IV Frederick celebrated the event with this Vereinsthaler.

You have already seen Dessau and Bernburg so the additional pictures show the castle in Kothen (well known to fans of Johann Sebastian Bach) as the Anhalt-Kothen line died out in 1847 before the introduction of the Vereinsthalers, and the most precious object in the collection of the local museum - double gulden struck in gold made by the court alchemist of Prince August of Anhalt-Plotzkau, one of three in existence.