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1⁄24 Thaler Bicentenary of the Reformation
| Issuer | Stolberg-Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Weight | 0.78 g |
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| Obverse description | A stag passant to the left stands before a tall column surmounted by a cross, the column resting on a plinth bearing the denomination numeral. The design evokes the mining heritage of Stolberg, with the stag serving as the county's heraldic symbol. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, reading within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOTT SEEGNE U. ERHALTE UNSERE BERGW. |
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The 1717 bicentenary of Luther's 95 Theses prompted a wave of commemorative coinage across Protestant German states, and Stolberg-Stolberg — a small county in the Harz foothills with genuine Lutheran roots — participated despite its negligible economic weight. The sheer number of Protestant principalities issuing their own bicentenary pieces that year makes attribution and die-linkage studies across the series genuinely complex.
At under a gram of silver, this was never a prestige issue. It circulated.