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1⁄24 Thaler - John Frederick
| Issuer | Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
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| Year | 1763-1764 |
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| Thickness | 0.60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | FURSTL.SCHW.RVDOL.CONV.MUNZ |
| Reverse description | Central three-line inscription in the field reading '24 / EINEN / THALER', denoting the coin's denomination as one twenty-fourth of a Thaler. A small ornamental rosette or mint mark device appears below the inscription. The encircling peripheral legend states the fineness standard 'CCCXX.EINE FEINE MARCK' (320 to the fine mark), with the date 1764 incorporated at the end of the legend. The overall layout conforms to the Conventions-Münze standard of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a tiny Imperial County elevated to a Principality in 1710, and its minting activity during 1763–64 fell directly in the wake of the Seven Years' War — a conflict that had devastated the currency of virtually every German state through emergency issues, debasements, and the so-called Ephraimiten, the notoriously debased coins struck under Prussian occupation. John Frederick's 1/24 Thaler at .368 silver was itself a product of that degraded monetary environment, the billon composition reflecting post-war fiscal exhaustion rather than peacetime policy.