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1/2 Thaler - Henry II
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Schraplau, County of |
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| Year | 1602 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#9, Tornau#1002 |
| Obverse description | Crowned and elaborately mantled coat of arms of Mansfeld, divided into quarters with alternating horizontal lines and lozenges, supported by ornate foliate scrollwork. The mintmaster's initials G-M appear flanking the crown above the shield, with the date split across the lower field. A circular beaded border frames the design, with the Latin legend running along the outer rim. |
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| Reverse description | Saint George, depicted as an armored knight on horseback moving to the left, thrusting a lance downward to slay a dragon prostrate beneath the horse's hooves. The figure of Saint George is rendered in fine detail with articulated armor and a billowing cape. The scene is contained within a beaded inner border, surrounded by the biblical Latin legend along the outer rim. |
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Mansfeld-Schraplau was one of the smallest and most financially precarious of the Mansfeld partition counties, a consequence of the relentless subdivision of the Mansfeld comital lands through inheritance across the sixteenth century. By 1602, the county's silver output from the Mansfeld mining district — once among the most productive in the Holy Roman Empire — was in steep decline, making issues from this period both economically strained and historically terminal. Henry II's tenure as count was brief, and few emission types are recorded under his name.