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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1196425, member: 39&quot;]The history of all those small states and mini-countries can be complicated anyway. And Anhalt-Köthen is one that does not make things easy. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> As you showed here, Clinker, they merely use &quot;Anhalt&quot; on the coins ...</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the &quot;Senior Domus&quot; title used on some of these pieces means <i>Oldest of the House</i> (ie. House of Anhalt). And the Anhalt bear on the wall can still be found today on the CoA of <u><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Wappen_Landkreis_Anhalt-Bitterfeld.svg/532px-Wappen_Landkreis_Anhalt-Bitterfeld.svg.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Wappen_Landkreis_Anhalt-Bitterfeld.svg/532px-Wappen_Landkreis_Anhalt-Bitterfeld.svg.png" rel="nofollow">Anhalt-Bitterfeld</a></u> county, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The city of Köthen (or Cöthen until 1927) is the county seat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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