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1⁄16 Thaler - Christian Albert
| Issuer | Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1675 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1560-1753) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central four-line denomination inscription within a raised inner circle: XVI (Roman numeral) above REICHS / THAL: / C·B·, denoting 1/16 Reichsthaler with the mint master initials C·B· below. The outer legend carries the Latin motto PER·ASPERA·AD·ASTRA separated by pellets, with the date 1675 incorporated into the circumferential legend. |
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Christian Albert's position was genuinely precarious in 1675. The duchy had been occupied by Danish forces in 1675 as part of the Scanian War, with Frederick III of Denmark moving to crush the Gottorp dukes' longstanding alliance with Sweden. This coin was struck the same year Danish troops overran the Holstein-Gottorp territories, and Christian Albert himself fled into Swedish-backed exile — making issues from this year administratively chaotic and numerically thin.