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1⁄12 Thaler - Christoph Louis II, Frederick Botho
| Issuer | Stolberg-Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1746-1750 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A stag passant to the left stands prominently in the central field, positioned before a column or post surmounted by a small crown, the whole set within a beaded inner circle. The stag, rendered with fine detail including branching antlers, serves as the heraldic emblem of the County of Stolberg. A circular legend in German surrounds the design reading GOTT SEEGNE V. ERHALTE VNSERE BERGWERCKE ('God bless and preserve our mines'), referencing the mining heritage of the region. A mintmaster's initial 'S' appears beneath the stag near the base. The coin's milled edge is visible along the rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOTT SEEGNE V. ERHALTE VNSERE BERGWERCKE |
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Stolberg-Stolberg was among the smallest of the German ecclesiastical and secular territories scrambling to assert coining rights under the Holy Roman Empire's fragmented monetary framework. The joint rule of Christoph Louis II and Frederick Botho — two counts governing simultaneously under the complex inheritance customs of the House of Stolberg — produced a narrow window of shared coinage that makes attributing these pieces to specific years within the 1746–1750 range genuinely difficult without die analysis.
The 1⁄12 Thaler denomination placed this coin squarely in everyday petty commerce, where it would have competed with issues from dozens of neighboring territories, all nominally regulated by the Reichsmünzordnung but struck to wildly varying standards in practice.