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1⁄24 Thaler
| Issuer | Hildesheim, City of |
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| Year | 1688-1755 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen = 1⁄24 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a terrestrial globe surmounted by a cross, with the denomination numeral 24 inscribed within the globe. The design is set within a radiate or ornamented border. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, reading DAPA(C):DOMI:INDIE(B):NOST:, referencing a devotional or civic motto. The overall composition is characteristic of late 17th- to early 18th-century German municipal coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hildesheim occupied an awkward position throughout this period — a nominally imperial free city perpetually in friction with the Prince-Bishopric of the same name, whose territorial encroachments had already stripped the city of most of its surrounding lands by the early seventeenth century. The city's continued right to strike coin was one of the few remaining symbols of municipal autonomy it could defend, and it did so stubbornly well into the mid-eighteenth century.
The 67-year span of this type suggests a remarkably stable die design with minimal administrative interruption — unusual for a city of Hildesheim's diminished political standing.