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1⁄12 Thaler - Frederick Botho and Charles Louis
| Issuer | County of Stolberg-Stolberg |
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| Year | 1763 |
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| Value | 1⁄12 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | F·BOTHO·U·C·LUDWIG·GR·Z·S·I·K·R·W·U·H |
| Reverse description | The denomination XII (denoting the 1/12 Thaler) appears at the top of an ornate baroque cartouche, within which the inscription EINEN THALER is displayed in two lines. The mintmaster's initial C appears below the cartouche. The surrounding circular legend reads CLX·ST·EINE·FEINE·MARCK·1763, indicating the fineness standard and date, all within a beaded border. |
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Stolberg-Stolberg was one of the smaller Saxon comital territories that managed to retain nominal minting rights well into the eighteenth century, largely through the patchwork jurisdictional arrangements of the Holy Roman Empire. By 1763, the county was co-ruled by Frederick Botho and Charles Louis — a joint administration that produced a brief and administratively awkward coinage window. The Seven Years' War had just ended that same year, and Saxon-region mints were scrambling to resume normal silver coinage after years of monetary disruption driven in part by Prussian debasement of the Albertustaler.
The 1⁄12 Thaler denomination was a practical subdivision for regional commerce, tied to the Reichstaler system standardized at Zinna and later Leipzig.