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1⁄21 Thaler - Volrat VI, Jobst II and Wolfgang III
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Artern, County of |
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| Year | 1616 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Quartered shield bearing the arms of Mansfeld, surmounted by two crested helmets with elaborate mantling. The four-fold arms display the characteristic Mansfeld heraldic charges in each quarter. Mintmaster's initials appear flanking the shield in the field. A partial legend runs along the coin's periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | Imperial orb inscribed with the value numeral 21, dividing the mintmaster's initials AK in the field, with a cross above the orb bisecting the date 1616. The legend COM.E.DO.I.MANSFE. runs around the periphery within a beaded border, identifying the issuing county of Mansfeld. |
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The Mansfeld counts issued from a county already in steep economic and political decline by 1616, their copper and silver mining operations — once among the most productive in the Holy Roman Empire — largely exhausted. Volrat VI, Jobst II, and Wolfgang III were among the last generation of the Artern line to exercise meaningful minting rights before the Thirty Years' War further fragmented what remained of Mansfeld authority.
The 1/21 Thaler denomination places this piece within a fractional system calibrated to the Leipzig Coin Ordinance standard, where 21 such pieces theoretically equaled one full Thaler.