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1/4 Thaler
| Issuer | Free city of Augsburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1700 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Augsburg pine cone — the city's heraldic emblem — mounted atop an ornate baroque pedestal, flanked on either side by reclining river god figures rendered in high relief, symbolizing the Lech and Wertach rivers. The date 1700 appears in the lower exergual area between dot stops. The circumferential Latin legend reads AVGVSTA VINDELICOR, referencing the Roman name of Augsburg, separated by a six-pointed star, all contained within a finely milled border. |
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| Mintage | 1700 |
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Augsburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave its mint the right to strike silver coinage independently of any territorial prince — a privilege that became increasingly contested as the Holy Roman Empire's political structure fractured through the late seventeenth century. The year 1700 also marks the final year before the Great Northern War reshaped northern European trade routes that had long fed silver into southern German commercial centers like Augsburg.
KM#112 is among the later issues in Augsburg's quarter thaler sequence, struck to the Reichsmünzfuß standard maintained after the Leipzig Convention of 1690.