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1/2 Thaler - Charles Theodor
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1794 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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| Mintage | 1794 A |
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By 1794, Charles Theodor's position was increasingly precarious — French Revolutionary armies were pushing into the Rhineland, and the territories he had acquired through the Bavarian succession were slipping from his grasp. He had never been popular in Bavaria; his subjects had opposed his accession in 1777, and his repeated attempts to trade Bavaria to Austria for the Austrian Netherlands had generated outright hostility. This half thaler was struck in a political climate where the elector's attention was less on Munich than on the collapsing Rhine frontier.