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1⁄24 Thaler, 1 Reichsgroschen - Anthony of Schaumburg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Minden |
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| Year | 1588-1598 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Imperial orb surmounted by a cross pattée, enclosing the denomination numeral '24' within the orb, with the date divided on either side of the orb in the field. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle and surrounded by a Latin legend referencing Emperor Rudolf II as Holy Roman Emperor. The reverse follows the standard type of the 1⁄24 Thaler coinage of the Empire, with the legend reading RUDOL.I.RO.IMP.SEM.AU. and the last two digits of the year (98) incorporated into the legend. |
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Anthony of Schaumburg held the see of Minden from 1587 until his death in 1599, a tenure marked by the grinding pressures of the post-Reformation Catholic recovery in a region where Lutheran influence had taken deep root. This small silver piece belongs to a period when ecclesiastical princes were fighting as much with accounting ledgers and currency policy as with theology — the 1/24 Thaler denomination itself emerged from the Reichsmünzordnung reform efforts of the later sixteenth century, an attempt to rationalize the chaotic proliferation of small silver coinage across the fragmented Empire.