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1⁄24 Thaler - Charles XI
| Issuer | Pomerania, Swedish dominion of |
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| Year | 1672-1684 |
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| Value | 1⁄24 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central four-line inscription stating the denomination and issuing authority, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The outer circular legend in Latin carries the date at its conclusion, separated by stops. The overall composition follows standard German-influenced small silver coinage conventions of the late 17th century. |
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Swedish Pomerania operated as a largely autonomous province following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, with its own mint at Stettin issuing coinage under Charles XI's authority while the king was simultaneously managing the recoinage crises that plagued the Swedish monetary system during the 1660s and 1670s. The 1/24 Thaler denomination was a standard subdivision within the North German reckoning system, where 24 Groschen equaled one Thaler — a convention Stettin's mint followed to keep Pomeranian coinage compatible with neighboring Brandenburg and Mecklenburg issues.
Charles XI was a minor when this series began, his regency government having presided over Sweden's costly involvement in the Franco-Dutch War before he assumed personal rule in 1672.