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1/2 Thaler
| Issuer | Kaufbeuren, City of |
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| Year | 1541-1548 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#6, Nau#75, Schult#1560 |
| Obverse description | Central field displays the ornate civic arms of Kaufbeuren within an elaborately mantled shield, depicting a crowned eagle displayed; the date is divided by the shield, with numerals appearing to left and right in the field. Two six-pointed mullets are visible in the field flanking the lower portion of the shield. The surrounding legend reads in Latin within a beaded border, identifying the coin as a new coinage of the city of Kaufbeuren. |
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| Obverse lettering | MO(N)(E)(TA):NO(VA):CIVITATIS:KAVFB(I)(V)R(E)(N)(S): |
| Reverse description | Half-length effigy of Emperor Charles V facing right, crowned and clad in full armor, holding an imperial scepter raised over his right shoulder. The figure is rendered in the robust, authoritative style characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century German hammered coinage. A surrounding Latin legend names and titles the emperor as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Semper Augustus. The legend is contained within a beaded border encircling the imperial portrait. |
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