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1⁄24 Thaler - Christian William of Brandenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1619-1621 |
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| Value | 1⁄24 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Imperial orb displaying the fraction numeral '24' (rendered as 'Z4' in period notation) within its lower globe, surmounted by a cross, with the date divided across the upper field to either side. A circular beaded border frames the design, consistent with contemporary Kipper und Wipper-era small silver coinage. The entire composition is typical of Holy Roman Empire subsidiary coinage of the early seventeenth century. |
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Christian William of Brandenburg was appointed Administrator of Magdeburg in 1598, a Protestant holding a nominally ecclesiastical post — the kind of compromise the Peace of Augsburg made routine. When the Thirty Years' War broke out in 1618, he backed the Bohemian Protestant cause, a political gamble that would eventually cost him the administratorship entirely. These small silver fractions were struck during that opening window of conflict, before Imperial pressure forced him from power in 1625.