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1⁄16 Thaler
| Issuer | Augsburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1715 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | XVI EINEN REICHS THAL |
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Augsburg's 1/16 Thaler fractions from the early eighteenth century were minted under the city's status as a Free Imperial City — answerable to the Emperor but not to any territorial prince. That independence gave Augsburg's mint unusual continuity through the chaos of the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, which had only concluded two years prior with the Treaties of Utrecht and Baden. The city remained a major commercial hub precisely because it sat outside the jurisdictional tangle that disrupted minting elsewhere in the Empire.
The 1/16 Thaler denomination was a workhorse of small commerce in southern Germany. Forst/Schm 470 places this squarely in a well-documented run for the type.