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1/2 Thaler

Issuer Augsburg, Free city of
Year 1763
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Diameter 36.2 mm
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Reverse script Latin
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Augsburg's 1763 half thaler falls squarely in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, which ended that same year with the Treaty of Hubertusburg. The Free City had navigated the conflict carefully — nominally within the Holy Roman Empire's framework but functionally self-governing — and its mint continued operating through the war years, a point of civic pride and fiscal necessity. Augsburg's mint had one of the longer unbroken traditions in the Empire.

Forster/Schmelzing attribution places this among a well-documented run, though die marriages within the 1763 series vary more than the single KM number suggests.

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