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1/2 Thaler - Louis I Death of Amoena Amalia
| Issuer | Anhalt-Köthen (German States) |
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| Year | 1625 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin (Fraktur blackletter) |
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| Reverse lettering | .LUDOVICVS. D.G.PRINCEPS.ANHALTIN COMES.ASCANIÆ.D.BER.ⲈT.SER. .MEMORIÆ. ILLVS.TAMOËNÆ.AMALÆ. PRIN.ANHALT.COM.BENTHEIM. PIEN.CAST.DILEC.CONIVGNAT.A. GHRI.M.D.XXCVI.MENS.MART.DIE. XIX.H.III.POM.OB.Ao.CHRI.MDC. XXV.MEN.SEPT.D.V.III.POST. VII.MAT.VIXI.ANNOS XXXIX.M.V.D.XX.I .HOR.V. |
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Amoena Amalia of Anhalt, wife of Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen, died in December 1625 at age thirty-one. Ludwig was a founding member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft — the first major German-language literary society — and the production of memorial coinage at her death reflected both his personal grief and the court culture he cultivated. Anhalt-Köthen was a small principality with limited minting activity, which makes surviving pieces from this issue genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.