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1⁄24 Thaler - Ulrich of Pomerania
| Issuer | Bishopric of Cammin |
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| Year | 1618-1620 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The central device consists of a crowned imperial orb bearing the value numeral '24' (rendered as 'Z4' in the period convention) within its lower globe, symbolizing the coin's denomination as a 1/24 Thaler. The four-digit date is split to either side of the orb, with '16' to the left and the final two digits to the right, a layout typical of early Kipper und Wipper-era German small silver. A circular Latin legend reading DEVS PROTECTOR MEVS ('God is my protector') encircles the entire composition, punctuated by stops. The execution is consistent with hammered production of the Cammin mint under die-cutter Johannes Hildisch. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ulrich of Pomerania served as Bishop of Cammin from 1618 until his death in 1622, the last of the Pomeranian dukes to hold that see before the Thirty Years' War — which broke out the very year this coin began production — fatally disrupted the region's ecclesiastical and political order. Cammin's status as a Lutheran prince-bishopric made it a target in the broader confessional struggle, and the diocese was formally secularized under the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Billon issues of this type circulated in a region about to be fought over by Sweden, Brandenburg, and the Empire simultaneously.