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1/4 Thaler - August of Sachsen-Weissenfels
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1640 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Quartered coat of arms with a central escutcheon bearing the Magdeburg arms (an eagle), the four quarters displaying the heraldic arms of the associated territories. A bishop's mitre surmounts the shield. The date 1640 is divided within the surrounding Latin legend, with the initials PS of the mint master flanking the shield. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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August of Sachsen-Weissenfels was appointed Administrator of Magdeburg in 1638, a Lutheran holding a position technically subordinate to the Catholic archiepiscopal structure — one of the many tortured ecclesiastical compromises produced by the Thirty Years' War. This coin was struck just two years into his administration, while Swedish forces still occupied much of the surrounding territory and Magdeburg itself was still recovering from its catastrophic sack of 1631, in which somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 inhabitants died.
The Westphalian Peace was still eight years away when this piece left the die.