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1⁄12 Thaler
| Issuer | Goslar, City of |
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| Year | 1764 |
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| Value | 1⁄12 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | GOSL·MONET·NOV·CIVIT·IMPERIAL· |
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| Mintage | 1764 |
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Goslar's coinage rights were a persistent source of friction between the city and the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel duchy throughout the eighteenth century, with the city jealously defending its imperial free status even as its economic importance faded. By 1764, Goslar was a shadow of the medieval mining powerhouse it had once been — the Rammelsberg silver mines that had funded centuries of coinage were largely exhausted, meaning the silver for this very piece was almost certainly imported rather than locally smelted.