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1⁄16 Thaler
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Bremen |
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| Year | 1641-1643 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Archbishop Friedrich III of Holstein-Gottorf facing right, with long flowing hair, set within an inner circle. The effigy depicts the ecclesiastical ruler in contemporary dress. A Latin legend surrounds the portrait in the outer field, reading FRID D G A E EP BR E V, an abbreviated titulature identifying Friedrich by the grace of God as Archbishop of Bremen and Bishop of Verden. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Archbishopric of Bremen was in an almost paradoxical position during these years: its last Catholic archbishop, Friedrich of Denmark, had died in 1634, and the territory was effectively administered under Swedish protection through the latter stages of the Thirty Years' War. These fractional thalers were struck amid that administrative uncertainty, with Bremen's ecclesiastical mint operating under conditions that blurred the line between episcopal and secular authority. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 would formally secularize the territory as the Duchy of Bremen under Swedish rule, making this issue one of the last coinages struck under the archiepiscopal title.