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1/2 Thaler
| Issuer | Free city of Augsburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1708 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I facing right, with an elaborate long curled wig rendered in fine Baroque detail. The emperor wears armour with ornamental decoration at the shoulder and a jewelled collar. The circumferential Latin legend IOSEPHVS D G ROM IMP S AVG encircles the effigy, identifying him as Joseph, by the grace of God, Roman Emperor, ever august. |
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| Reverse lettering | IOSEPHVS D G ROM IMP S AVG |
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Augsburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave its mint the right to strike silver coinage independently of any territorial prince — a privilege jealously guarded and periodically contested throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By 1708, the city was navigating the political fallout of the War of the Spanish Succession, during which Augsburg had been occupied by Bavarian and French forces between 1703 and 1704 before imperial troops restored the city's autonomy.
KM#119 falls within a tightly controlled emission period as the city reasserted its minting authority post-occupation.