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1/4 Thaler - Diana of Dommartin
| Issuer | Fénétrange, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1618 |
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| Weight | 8.6 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mintage | 1618: ND (1618) |
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Fénétrange was a tiny lordship in Lorraine whose coinage rights were exercised sporadically and often contentiously — the local counts and lords minting small runs of silver when political circumstances briefly permitted it. This quarter thaler was struck under Diana of Dommartin, who held the lordship at a moment when the Thirty Years' War was about to consume the entire region. Lorraine would spend the next three decades as a corridor for armies, and coinage from its minor lordships essentially ceased within years of this issue.
Flon's census treats surviving examples as genuinely scarce, which is unsurprising given the political disintegration that followed 1618.