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1/2 Thaler
| Issuer | Neuss, City of |
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| Year | 1568-1572 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing the crowned civic arms of Neuss: a quartered shield displaying the city's heraldic charges, with a demi-eagle to the sinister side, surmounted by an imperial crown. The shield is set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding circular legend in Latin reads MONETA. NOVA. CIVITATIS. NVSSIENSIS., separated by pellet stops, rendered in bold Gothic-influenced lettering characteristic of 16th-century Rhenish hammered coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field occupied by a large imperial double-headed eagle displayed, each head crowned, with a shield on the breast bearing the Habsburg arms, all rendered in high relief typical of hammered Rhenish half-thalers of the period. The date appears in the field, divided to either side of the eagle's body. The surrounding circular legend in Latin reads MAXIMILIANVS. II. D. G. ROM. IMP. SEMP. AVG., acknowledging the suzerainty of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, separated by pellet stops. |
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