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1/2 Batzen - Albert IV
| Issuer | Bavaria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1506 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1505-1622) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts the Bavarian rampant lion passant-rampant, turned to the left, crowned, with an elaborately curled tail and detailed mane, rendered in a vigorous late-Gothic style typical of early sixteenth-century Bavarian coinage. The lion occupies the full field within a beaded inner border. The surrounding circular legend, in Latin, reads IVST9 NON DERELIN9VETVR (abbreviation for IUSTUS NON DERELINQUETUR, meaning 'The righteous shall not be forsaken'), a scriptural motto commonly employed on Bavarian issues of this period. |
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Albert IV of Bavaria secured papal recognition of primogeniture succession for the Wittelsbach dynasty in 1506 — the same year this coin was struck — ending generations of territorial fragmentation caused by inheritance divisions among male heirs. The Batzen denomination itself was a recent Swiss innovation, adopted widely across southern German territories during the 1490s as a practical response to the chronic shortage of mid-value silver currency.
The Witt. 200 A/a distinction suggests early die state; collector differentiation within this type runs deep, and the MB#17 / Hahn#7 concordance places this firmly among the better-documented half-Batzen issues of the period.